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A 3 page essay/research paper that discusses and analyzes 2 Harlem Renaissance poets, Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen. The writer briefly discusses the historical context and background of each poet and analyzes Hughes' "Mother to Son" and Cullen's "Saturday's Child." Bibliography lists 3 sources that were drawn from the Norton Anthology of African American Literature.
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York Citys Harlem district (Gates, et al 929). Langston Hughes and Countee Cullen were part of this movement, i.e., the Harlem Renaissance, as their verse perfectly captures the pathos and
injustices inherent in African American experience during this period. Hughes work, in his poetry and in his other writing, defined the "spirit of the age" (Gates, et al 1251).
Born in Joplin, Missouri, raised in Lawrence, Kansas, and elsewhere, Hughes arrived in New York in 1921 and published his first collection of poems in 1926 (Gates, et al 1252).
One of his early poems, "Mother to Son," written in 1922, captures the essence of black experience and the inequities of American culture as a mother talks frankly to her
son. Using free verse, Hughes establishes an compact but revealing extended metaphor that conveys the mothers meaning perfectly, as she tells her son, "Life for me aint been no
crystal stair" (line 2)(Hughes 1254). Rather than an easy climb, there has been "tacks," "splinters," and loose or missing boards (Hughes 1254). There have times when the mother was in
the dark, stumbling, but always moving forward, despite any difficulty. So, she tells her son "dont you turn back" (line 14), "Dont you set down on the steps" (line 15),
and "Dont you fall now-" (line 17)(Hughes 1255). She concludes by emphasizing the point that she is still going, still climbing, never surrendering to the struggle, as "...life for
me aint been no crystal stair" (line 20)(Hughes 1255). In his 1925 poem "Saturdays Child," Cullen addresses what is basically the same theme, i.e., the difficulty of being black
in a racist culture. Born in Louisville, Kentucky, he was adopted by a prominent Harlem minister, Reverend Frederick Cullen and his wife, graduated from New York University and went on
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