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A 5 page research paper which examines the work and messages of Langston Hughes. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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was, at the very least, confusing. He was a man who was, by chance, an African American and also a man who had been raised, also by chance, in a
middle class lifestyle. In essence, he was a man who "must find his own way and establish his own identity" and his struggle "was a poets search to find his
place in the world and in time" while also "a struggle against the ignorance of oppression" As can be seen his voice, his identity, and clearly his message in his
works was very complex and not always cut and dried, so to speak. The following paper examines several of Hughes works and focuses on a comparison of the point of
view in the various works. While the point of view can often be seen as one coming from an African American fighting against injustice, they are also works that simply
speak of finding oneself in a problematic (ignorant and oppressive) world in general. Langston Hughes One work to be discussed is Harlem, A Dream Deferred. If the reader
did not know that this particular poem was written by an African American, prior to the Civil Rights Movement, one could easily see how the point of view simply examines
what happens when someone has to push aside their dream. Hughes narrator asks, in relationship to a dream that has been set aside, "Or crust and sugar over--/ like a
syrupy sweet?/ Maybe it just sags/ like a heavy load/ Or does it explode?" (Hughes [2] 7-11). There is no mention of ethnicity in this, no mention of race or
culture or even gender. It is a very human poem from a very human point of view. It could refer to a woman having given up her dreams when she
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