Langston Hughes was a poet that particularly focused on Harlem communities, the American Dream, racial discrimination, and the jazz age. However, “April Rain Song” by Langston Hughes does not relate to any of these topics. This poem does not fall into his usual categories, it is simply just a song about rain. Some people would argue that there is a relationship between this poem and the Harlem Renaissance because he did live there at about the time this poem was written. They say that this poem was inspired when Langston Hughes was watching a rail fall over the urbanized city. The most evident rhetorical device in this poem is personification. Langston Hughes personifies the rain with a gentle personality when he uses words like “silver,”