Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

• By Antoine
• 3rd B lock
• (1902 to 1967)

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Where he grew up!!!

• Langston was born on February 1in 1902, in a
  small town in Missouri called Joplin. He spent
  most of his childhood in Lawrence Kansas with his
  grandmother, but his grandmother died when he was
  thirteen years old. After his grandmother died he
  went to live with his mother and step father.

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When it all began

• Hughes began writing when he was in the eighth
  grade, and began publishing his work as a high
  school student in his literary magazine.

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A lil history

• Hughes began working as a bus school boy and the
  way he was discovered as a writer is when he had
  wrote three poems and he gathered up the courage
  to leave the on the plate of the famous poet
  Vachel Lindsay when he was seating at a
  Washington D.C. hotel, and Lindsay read and fell
  in love with Langstons poems and began telling
  everyone that he has found a true writer.

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Historical Period

• Langston Hughes was a write in the time of the
  Harlem renaissance.The final historical period
  for study is the Harlem Renaissance 1919-1940.
  The Harlem Renaissance was a period of artistic
  creation by African Americans which occurred
  primarily in Harlem, New York. During this time,
  African American writers published more fiction
  and poetry than in previous periods, black
  literary journals were created, and authors and
  artists received critical acclaim. Writers had
  freedom to express diverse themes through the use
  of various forms and literary techniques.
  Literature of this period illustrated the African
  American's reevaluation of his African heritage
  and pride in his racial heritage. 
• The major authors in this period are Claude
  McKay, Zora Neal Hurston, Jean Toomer, Arna
  Bontemps, Countee Cullen, and Langston Hughes

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Some Famous Poems

• I,TOO
• Cross
• Dream Deferred
• Personal
• Gods
• Peace

• Snake
• Enemy
• Helen Keller
• Wisdom of war
• Wealth
• I dream a world

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Most Famous Poem

• Hughes most famous poem was called the WEARY
  BLUES. He sat down in 1922 in a small hut and
  wrote the Weary Blues. In this poem Hughes
  incorporated the many elements of his life, the
  music of the southern black speech, the lyrics of
  the first blues he had ever heard, and
  conventional poetic forms he learned in school.
  While the body of the poem took shape, it took
  the poet two years to get the ending right. I
  could not achieve an ending I liked, although I
  worked and worked on it Hughes said. when he at
  last completed the poem. The Weary Blues marked
  the beginning of his literary career.

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Weary blues

• The weary blues was one of the most famous poem,
  and the major themes of the poem is about a man
  in a bar playing a piano and singing in sorrow.
  The reason he is singing in sorrow is because he
  is tired of something in his life and he says
  that he feels dead.

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Major Themes

• Langston wrote about the hard struggle of black
  African Americans and the hard ships they had to
  go through. Langston also wrote his poems in a
  from the Blues or a speech.

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The genres

• Langston Hughes wrote mostly poems and short
  stories. He enjoyed written poems about the
  blacks African life and the struggle in their
  lives.

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His death

• Langston Hughes died of complications from
  prostate cancer in May 22, 1967, in New York. In
  his memory, his residence at 20 East 127th Street
  in Harlem, New York City, has been given landmark
  status by the New York City Preservation
  Commission, and East 127th Street was renamed
  "Langston Hughes Place.
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