Langston Hughes: Tracing His Steps To Literary Greatness

In the decades that followed, as both a longtime resident of harlem and a cosmopolitan world traveler, hughes wrote of black life in masterful, deceptively simple poems and prose that made him one of the most. Born in joplin, missouri in 1902, langston hughes' first published poem the negro speaks of rivers appeared in the crisis magazine in june 1921, foreshadowing the direction of his later literary art. By 1926 hughes had moved to new york city where the publication of the weary blues confirmed the emergence of two aspects that were to inform. Poetry served as a platform for hughes to express his identity as an african american man and to chronicle the experiences and struggles of his people. His style of writing embraced the everyday language spoken by african americans, which captured the rhythm of the blues and jazz music.

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