Description of the Poet
James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902. James first started to write poetry in eighth grade, but in college he pursued to be an engineer, because his father discouraged him to be a writer and wanted him to study something "more practical." Hughes later dropped out of college and pursued his poetry career and travelled the world visiting different countries with a high level of African American people and studied the different cultures his type of people live in.
Description of Poet Con't
He then later was a member of the NAACP which was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and this association would publish his poetry and essays for other african americans to read. Langston Hughes grew up in the Civil Rights era and he wrote tons of poetry involving dreams especially for black americans. Many of his poems were influential for this era because it talked about how black people dreamed to be like the white man and his poems influenced black people to stop dreaming and start to take action. His poetry was most famous during the Harlem Renaissance and he even impacted Jazz music.
Dreams
By: Langston Hughes
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.
As I Grew Older
By: Langston Hughes
It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
Bright like a sun—
My dream.
And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly,
Between me and my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky—
The wall.
Shadow.
I am black.
I lie down in the shadow.
No longer the light of my dream before me,
Above me.
Only the thick wall.
Only the shadow.
My hands!
My dark hands!
Break through the wall!
Find my dream!
Help me to shatter this darkness,
To smash this night,
To break this shadow
Into a thousand lights of sun,
Into a thousand whirling dreams
Of sun!
I Dream a World
By: Langston Hughes
I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
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Description of the Poet
James Langston Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri in 1902. James first started to write poetry in eighth grade, but in college he pursued to be an engineer, because his father discouraged him to be a writer and wanted him to study something "more practical." Hughes later dropped out of college and pursued his poetry career and travelled the world visiting different countries with a high level of African American people and studied the different cultures his type of people live in.
Description of Poet Con't
He then later was a member of the NAACP which was the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and this association would publish his poetry and essays for other african americans to read. Langston Hughes grew up in the Civil Rights era and he wrote tons of poetry involving dreams especially for black americans. Many of his poems were influential for this era because it talked about how black people dreamed to be like the white man and his poems influenced black people to stop dreaming and start to take action. His poetry was most famous during the Harlem Renaissance and he even impacted Jazz music.
Dreams
By: Langston Hughes
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.
As I Grew Older
By: Langston Hughes
It was a long time ago.
I have almost forgotten my dream.
But it was there then,
In front of me,
Bright like a sun—
My dream.
And then the wall rose,
Rose slowly,
Slowly,
Between me and my dream.
Rose until it touched the sky—
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