Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

• Born in February 1,1902.
• Born in Joplin, Missouri.
• Moved to Lincoln, Illinois to live with her mother.
• After graduating from high school, he spent a year in New Mexico.
• He attended at Columbia University in New York City.

Time pERIOD

• Langston Hughes was first recognized as an important literary figure.
• Especially during the 1920s, a period known as the "Harlem Renaissance"

Major themes

• Langston Hughes writes from the point of view of struggling jazz musicians, frustrated dreamers, and so on.
• He finds dignity in peoples daily struggles.

Still here by: Langston hughes

• I been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me, Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!
• I think this poem means that Langston has been through a lot in his life and has got through it

LITERARY PERIOD

• As I mentioned the Langston Hughes wrote in the period of the "Harlem Renaissance"
• Some of the authors that wrote around this period included
• Countee Cullen (1903-1946)
• Claude McKay (1889-1948)
• James Weldon Johnson (1871-1938)
• etc.

Contributions to History

• Langston Hughes published seventeen books of poetry, seven short story collections, twenty six dramatic works, two novels, & two autobiographies

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