Struggles of African Americans in Langston Hughes’ Poems, Mother to Son and Lenox Avenue: Midnight

Langston Hughes' poetry, mother and son, and African American at Lenox Avenue: Midnight's life experience, lessons and conditions provide a source of inspiration for creative expressions and ideas of people. Throughout life people encounter situations and situations that will help them shape them into a personalized spirit. Personal personality reflects his or her life. Langston Hughes is a world famous African-American poet, defender of self-styled African-American heritage, boldly disdain the stereotype and accepted forms of poetry at his own discretion doing.

104 Miller Professor 16th October 2012 Langston Hughes's poem "Mother to Son" is a moving poem. This is an outline of what all parents should plant children, which is the success of our children. Langston Hughes, born in 1902, was a famous poet of Harlem Renaissance. His poetry is not personal, it is spoken to all African Americans. From affectionate mother to son, in this verse, everything has important meaning through repetition of words, metaphor, and image.

"Mother and Son", published by Langston Hughes in 1922, is one of the most famous poems he has ever written. Hughes is an African American born in 1902. Hughes and his family who lived in 1900 experienced racial discrimination, discrimination, slavery difficulty. Therefore, this poem is not only an encouragement from mother to son, but also encouragement to the entire African-American community. This inspired poet tells the community the difficulties that anyone at the time must endure. And they are not alone. Hughes wrote this from the perspective of encouraging his son to go forward, no matter what difficulties his mother encountered. She explained that life is extremely difficult, he is not the only one who has to endure life experiences.

In addition to race, many African-American writers express the plight of the black class in American society. Langston Hughes has a classroom theme in his poetry "Mother to Son" and "Harlem (2)". In my mother's poem "Son's Mother", I believe that mothers experienced a difficult journey in their lives, despite being diligent and consistent. She told her son not to be disappointed, or to "turn back." In other words, even if life brings about a challenge, he needs to "crawl" continuously to find success in life. In the poems of "Harlem (2)", Hughes raised the question "What will become a dream?", "Frozen like ulcers", "smell like rotten meat", hanging like a heavy load There is a possibility. His last work emphasizes italics, "Is it just a blast?" In this poem he can not keep such black men constantly to the reader, his dreams shattered shattered .