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The African-American Experience in the Short Story - James Baldwin and Langston Hughes Compared

This research report compares and contrasts the works of these two black authors. Short stories are discussed which look at how th...

Langston Hughes’ Theme for English B

that everything he says is truth and thus at this point his analyzing is only supporting that truth. He assumes, or infers...

A Poem Comparison, Frost, Hughes

and the "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" by Langston Hughes are both evocative and deeply beautiful poems. In each poem, the poet uses...

Theme for English By Langston Hughes

This essay analyzes the meaning of Langston Hughes' poem "Theme for English B." Three pages n length, two sources are cited. ...

Joyce and Hughes/Loss in 2 Short Stories

OShay, the vice principal of the school, tells Nancy Lee that the scholarship was rescinded when the nominating committee learned ...

Singing the Song of the People in African American Literature

her works dealt little with the condition of the slaves in America, and held mainly to classical poetical themes. She was an accom...

Miller, Hughes, and Baldwin

play about a man who had everything but was still unhappy. Then there was the infamous Death of a Salesman, which is clearly a sto...

Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, and the Blues of the African-American Experience

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...

African American Experience in the Poetry of Langston Hughes

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 ...

Langston Hughes' Plays

In six pages this paper examines how the African American experience manifests itself in Langston Hughes' plays Mulatto and Don't ...

Poetry of Langston Hughes

has been to continuously "climb" up the socioeconomic ladder in a culture that is set against her. She advises her son, not to gi...

Langston Hughes/Critical Response to 2 Poems

opening, Hughes moves on to create a "crescendo of horror," which entails moving through a series of neutral questions. The questi...

2 African American Poets/Cullen & Hughes

and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, ...

Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin

is addicted, pointing out that it was simply part of his wild nature, thus letting the reader see how the brother is being affecte...

Still Burning Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

trend of black militancy, which would blossom into full-flower during the 1960s, decrying it as little more than a "peculiar form ...

2 Poems by Langston Hughes

In five pages 'The Negro Speaks of Rivers' and 'Dream Deferred' poems of Langston Hughes are compared in a discussion of brutal re...

Araby and Sonny’s Blues

classroom her image came between me and the page I strove to read" (Joyce). With Sonnys brother there is a sense of helplessness...

Blues and James Baldwin’s Short Story “Sonny’s Blues”

their late mother, who was the familys support system. Of her, the narrator would recall, "I always see her wearing pale blue" (B...

The Story of Sonny’s Blues

problem is, he and Sonny have never really understood one another; or rather, his brother has never truly understood Sonny. For So...

African American Poetic Modernism

172). But while modernism was a reaction to the modern age and the disassociation that came with it, there also seems to have been...

The Civil Rights Era and its Impact upon African American Poetry

endured by Black People during various eras. Research I uncovered focuses much on the Harlem Renaissance, the Black Arts Poets, an...

Langston Hughes' African American Poetry

In six pages this paper examines Langston Hughes' African American poetry and the common theme that is interwoven in poems like 'H...

'On the Road' by Langston Hughes

In one page the character of Sergeant featured in 'On the Road,' a short story by Langston Hughes, is analyzed. There is no bibli...

'Father and Son' and 'Mother and Child' by Langston Hughes

of every class" (Scott). Lucy eventually "became the planters own slave, and sometime thereafter gave birth to his daughter, Maria...

African American Poet Langston Hughes

he foretold in this little piece written long before his name became a beloved household word"....

Langston Hughes: Work and Worldview

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...

The Poetry of Wheatley and Hughes

experiences were good ones, and quite unique when compared to slaves in the south. As such "racial equality is not a theme to be f...

American Experience in the Poems of Langston Hughes and Walt Whitman

In five pages this paper examines how unique aspects of the American experience are featured in the poems of Langston Hughes and W...

Comparing Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes

In five pages this research paper compares and contrasts Zora Neale Hurston and Langston Hughes whose works flourished during the ...

Comparing 2 Short Stories by Franz Kafka

In nine pages Kafka's 1913 short story 'The Judgment' is compared with his classic 1915 work 'The Metamorphosis.'...