This paper will be about Langston Hughes and will discuss the topics hughes felt were important and his poems will be broken down to show you there was and is a deeper meaning behind everything. and all of his poems can be interpreted in many ways and can even be analyzed and can be relatable to all races.
Langston Hughes is a well known African American writer /poet. Hughes is known for his hunger for change and the way he went about addressing the changes he felt needed to be made. Hughes addressed these points in different ways through his poems and his novels, each one had a deeper meaning and a specific them than the title.Langston Hughes addressed the topics and his poems have a deeper meaning behind everything he writes in them Langston Hughes is a literary leader because he used the idea of social change to connect to the reader and keep them interested. Langston Hughes was first acknowledged as an important literary figure during the early 1920s,which was a period well known as the "Harlem Renaissance" because of the number of black writers that were emerging during that time. Hughes 's early works were then being criticized by many blacks for portraying what they thought to be an unattractive and bad outlook on the black life. In which hughes wasn 't trying to he was just all about social change and making people see things through the blacks eye and perspective. and not even just the blacks but everyone meaning different races and cultures. hughes was big on the ideal of social change he felt that if he could just get his message across hed be achieving something big and making a change for future generations. as one of his readers said “Without him and other people who actually spoke up we wouldnt have a voice today” Hughes poem “Sunset—Coney Island” goes “ The sun, Like the red yolk of a rotten egg, Falls behind the roller-coaster And the horizon sticks With a putrid odor of colors. Down on the beach A little Jewish