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James Mercer Langston Hughes

1902-1967

  • Poet, Novelist, & Playwright
  • Influenced by Carl Sandburg, Walt Whitman, and D.E.B. Du Bois
  • Key figure in the Harlem Renaissance
  • Graduated from Lincoln University, Pennsylvania in 1929
  • Published more than 35 books & hated "long novels [and] narrative poems"
  • Founded black theatre groups in Harlem, Chicago, and Los Angeles

Published Works

Technique

Use Langston in the

Classroom!

Poems/Books of Verses

  • Rhythmical language often set to music
  • "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," in Crisis (1921)
  • The Weary Blues (1926)
  • Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927)
  • Montage of a Dream Deferred (1951)
  • The Panther and the Lash (1967)

Social Studies

Themes

Harlem Renaissance

Civil Rights

Novels/Books

English/Language Arts

  • Not Without Laughter (1930)
  • Famous American Negroes (1954)
  • Simple Speaks His Mind (1950)

Rhythm in Poetry

  • Racial Relationships in the US
  • The everyday life of an African American
  • Portrayal of people whose lives were impacted by racism, prejudice, sexual conflicts, poverty
  • Southern violence
  • Harlem street life

Plays

Fine Arts/Music

  • The Golden Piece (1921)
  • The Mulatto (1935)

Jazz

Langston Hughes

1902-1967

The Dream Keeper

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Bring me all of your dreams,

You dreamer,

Bring me all your

Heart melodies

That I may wrap them

In a blue cloud-cloth

Away from the too-rough fingers

Of the world.

Dreams

Hold fast to dreams

For if dreams die

Life is a broken-winged bird

That cannot fly.

Hold fast to dreams

For when dreams go

Life is a barren field

Frozen with snow.

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