Harlem Renaissance Poets: Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes

After the First World War, most African Americans moved from the south to the north. New economic and artistic opportunities motivate themselves to create and identify themselves within their own cultures and traditions. This movement is known for Harlem Renaissance. With new life style, music style, and talented writers. In this article I will explain the two poems of this period. The legacy written by Rep. Karen and The Weary Blues by Langston Hughes.

Karen Karen and Langston Hughes were one of the most famous African-American poets of Harlem Renaissance. The Karen Committee's "I am amazed" and Langston Hughes's "I, too" are similar poems, because similar themes are personal personal to the racial inequality of the author It is because it expresses suffering. By comparing these two poems you can see the reality of racial discrimination by two famous black poets in the 1920s. Karen and Hughes were born within a year, so they were written in the same year (1925). This is important as it reflects the outstanding time of racial inequality. In the two white dominant societies, the two poets had a hard time to become the feelings of ethnic minorities in African Americans. Their poetry reflects injustice of racial discrimination, which is particularly pronounced in the poem "I am also" by Langston Hughes.

Member Karen is a famous American poet known as the "Poster Poet" of the 1920 art movement known as the Harlem Renaissance. The first African-American literature was produced in the United States during the Harlem Renaissance. In the Harlem Renaissance there were a number of celebrities such as James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Langston Hughes, Wallace Thurman, Anabuntep. Karen is a wonderful young man who won many poem contests in New York, announced two famous poems (color and copper days), a master's degree at Harvard University, and joined the Color Improvement Association. The daughter of founder WEB Du Bois got married. .

Trustee LeRoy Karen was one of the major poets of Harlem Renaissance. There was no real explanation in his young life, but his achievement through his age was wonderful. During the Harlem Renaissance, he and other writers and poets gave power to blacks and used their work to talk about the ongoing struggles of blacks. His poem "Event" depicts how racist discrimination opened and who it attacks regardless of age and sex. Kolen Commissioner was born on May 30, 1903, and the commissioner LeRoy Porter is an African-American poet, writer, novelist, translator and children's writer.