YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Cross by Langston Hughes
Essays 31 - 60
sore" (line 4)? The structure of the poem asks a series of questions that, in themselves, suggest the answers, which are all found...
the dawns were / young. / I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to / sleep. / I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyram...
opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...
that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...
the more tolerant cities of the north, where there was both work and opportunity (Rowen and Brunner). Nearly three-quarters of a m...
a subtle reminder particularly to African-American women of how far they had come as a race and how much further they needed to go...
human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my ...
that Jesus would come to him and change him and that he would feel different. He waited for the difference to occur. The adult m...
things in daily life that he does. Despite this, he and his classmates have a lot in common: they all need to sleep, drink and e...
likens the process of death to an innocuous fly buzzing. In other words, instead of being a mysterious occurrence, it is a proces...
what happens when someone has to push aside their dream. Hughes narrator asks, in relationship to a dream that has been set aside,...
between blacks and whites. The mother, in her simple yet compelling tone, does not want to see her son succumb to racially-relate...
Whitmans, just that the ones being examined do not examine that same sort of subject matter. In Whitmans The Ox-Tamer the poet s...
reflect an attitude of equality instead of segregation between blacks and whites; however, inasmuch as much as humanity has succes...
questions rather than declarative sentences. Also Hansen (2002) points out that the tentative "maybe," which is part of this sole...
Hughes indicates the basic characteristics of the music that a black man plays at a piano. The alliteration between "droning" and...
at Columbia University in 1920, but left after one year to travel. He drifted for several years, finding employment as a merchant ...
living in a small Kansas town (Not Without Laughter). Its a sad story and tells of his rather slow and sad awakening to the reali...
of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...
leave him. Finally, Janie shares that when her grandmother passes away she seeks her own freedom and runs away from Logan. Many do...
he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....
but his folk heritage as well. "Hughes made the spirituals, blues, and jazz the bases of his poetic expression. Hughes wrote, he c...
this poem is that of the universal anguish of being bound and imprisoned, no matter what the age. And, in a very real sense he is ...
the best basketball players at Fisk sank his first ball right here at Lafayette County Training School" (Angelou 870). Angelou is ...
and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...
to a revolutionary conception of identity that transcends race and ethnicity and focuses instead on the deep socially ingrained di...
this became the most well known poem by Hughes and appeared in his first volume of poetry, The Weary Blues, which was published in...
has grown deep like rivers" (line 4). Setting the line off by itself emphasizes its significance, as it ties the narrator directly...
This essay analyzes two poems by Hughes, "Theme for English B" and "Let America Be America Again." The writer asserts that "Theme"...
This essay considers three of Langston Hughes's poems, "Harlem," "I, Too," and "Ballad of the Landlord" and argues that they are r...