The Great Change (Langston Hughes)

One of the most important hands in the Harlem Renaissance was Langston Hughes. His identity was formed in the neighborhood of impudently York City although it was said that he had much travel in his lifespan that he freighter be considered as the man with no grow at all. provided Langston had his he stratagem dedicated to voicing out the run intos and the grieve of the African American sight. During his time, he created meters, plays, and books about the smuggled making accredited their stead in the society. He was one of the great men who were against racialism and inequality. He found counselling in his life non on the nose through writing but in any case to get a lineing to jazz and blues. He was the kind of man who would sit in a bar and listen to music and in that way he created a naked as a jaybird direction not just in his poetry but in art itself. His importance and value was seen in the way he made other(a) blacks to reach out their longings to the societ y, their wanting not just to be drop from racism but also to be seen and valued like the whites. Hughes rundle of value as a man for the Blacks.The Harlem Renaissance characterized by new ideas was emphasized by Hughes through his music and poetry. One of his famous numbers was The Negro speaks of River helped him pretend a good start in the earth of poetry and cultural ex fix.The Negro Speaks of Rivers (to W. E. B. B. DuBois)Ive known rivers Ive known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of gay blood in human veins.My soul has grown deep like the rivers.I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I reinforced my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to catnap.I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I hear the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln wentdown to New Orleans, and Ive seen its muddy bosom turnall booming in the sunset.In this poem, he gave significance to the Blacks being the builders of civilization, something that shou ld be considered in history. For a long time, prior to the African American Cultural Movement, the black people have experienced injustice in different forms, whether at work, in school and in the community as a whole. Their existence was seen to be less than the white where some African American people would separate that they never really existed at all. The poem speaks of the places known to every black, and it can be noticed that these places all have historical significance.The persona and his comrades not only look for significance and visibility but also for hearth. The poem creates an image of longing for home where thither is comfort and justice. The words lulled me to residual are quite powerful for the readers to see what is being longed for by the persona, thats none other than tranquility within. This can be related to the home that the blacks have searched for a long time in the community of whites who henpecked and received the best of what the world could offer. The poem also raises the blacks voice of considering them the builders of increase and civilization because they have always been there, in the past, in the state and in the future. Hughes tried to create an immortal stand of the blacks against invisibility, an element that made racism flourish.Another poem by Langston Hughes entitled Dream Deffered exposes sorrow and heavy magnetic core in life. What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a unspeakable and then run? The poem is made of forelands that seem to be unending. The tone of voice is with hopelessness. The language used was simple, simple enough to be understood that its all about dreams of the blacks that were held long enough by time. Possibilities and ways of the dish of disappearance can be seen in the poem like for face drying up from the heat of the sun which was mentioned a while ago.The line Does it stench in a bad meat? Or crust and sweeten over like a syrupt y sweet? is another question that may be related to the kind of death that blacks experience. The image of a rotten meat suggests something mournful and intolerable while the latter is an image of a sweet death. It makes one wonder just how tolerable is it to just construct ones body into the river because the one who died is not really that strong and his existence is not really valued, a very common scenario of the black people who are enslaved and sold to the market of the whites. But more than the question of privilege for a peaceful death is their right to have it. If they are removed of the privilege to have even so a good sepulchre or death, should the question on chances for a good fate be questioned still?The tone for Quiet Girl can also be likened to Dream Deffered as it speaks also of grief over a status or position but the difference is that there is a glimpse of hope that can be seen in it. I would liken you to a night without stars were it not for your eyes. I wou ld liken you to a sleep without dreams were it not for your songs. The night without stars can be seen as another hopeless solecism of some sort in the scene, however, it is destinen a sprinkle of a good chance through the eyes that was silently assumed to visible radiation instead of the stars. The songs were made powerful in attaining a tranquil sleep even if there was no dream. The wonderful thing that can be derived from the poem is the sound of continuity of life despite some untimely circumstances in the lives of the black. There is the balance that is being claimed from the poem, the balance that could give meaning to the blacks existence.But if there is one particular poem that can characterize the present African Americans, with the way they react and live in the present society, that would be the poem Me and the Mule.My old mule, Hes gota grin on his face. Hes been a mule so long Hes forgotten about his race.Im like that old mule Black and dont give a damn You got to take me Like I am.A mule that is known for its good working ability for an animal not only works for nothing, but also works for a master. But that can be one point of the poem. It can be seen also in a validating sense in the way that there is a courage directly shown from the mule and from the persona to not care, yes, not care at all from all the discrimination that he has experienced and from what the world tells about him. The mule just like the persona shall cut across to live no study how hard it is to exist and no matter how heavy the load seems. The present though doesnt change the blacks past. Still, even after the Harlem Renaissance, it cant be denied that they were still despised of their rights to experience a just treatment. But right now they are already visible, yet they will still be like the mule that wont give a damn to the societys uneasy thoughts. Perhaps, just like the mule, giving no damn will make them live longer, and stronger.Hughes was able to see a nd react on the basis of his position and his art, his love for music, poetry and plays made him more than a figure of the Harlem renaissance. He made himself and his race visible to the world and worth it of the great and positive changes with the way blacks are treated. More than a poet, Langston Hughes was the big difference of the Harlem Renaissance.SourcesA Renaissance Man. April 23, 2007 Langston Hughes. 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