Born in the early twentieth century in racially torn Mississippi, Langston Hughes is an American writer and activist. Langston Hughes combined literature with his passion for creating equality for African American. According to Langston Hughes autobiography The Big Sea “When I (Langston Hughes) was in the second grade, my grandmother took me to Lawrence to raise me. And I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books--where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas “(p.16). His early life was one sadness, growing up a poor negro child in the midst of the early twentieth century racism. The struggles of childhood are clearly reflected throughout his literary work. During 1919 the race riots erupted in Chicago which left multiple blacks and whites injured and died, that summer there were over sixty hanging of blacks. That following year Langston graduated high school and moved to Mexico to teach. I presume one of the main reason Langston left for Mexico was because …show more content…
(There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this homeland of the free) “1. Like many of Langston’s poem Let America be Great Again is rheumatic one. Reading his poems is almost like read music, naturally follow the rhythmic tone of the words. “Hughes wrote in several literary genres including poetry, plays, short stories and novels. He is best known for his poetry, using jazz and Black folk rhythms in his work, ignoring classical forms in favor of the oral and improvisational traditions of Black culture”3. Langston combines sonnets and free verse most often in his