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                  Meghan Langston Hughes

 

*What college did Langston Hughes attend, how did he pay tuition for college, and when did he graduate?

       The  college that Langston Hughes attended was Columbia University he did very well there from what the people said. How Langston Hughes paid through college by him doing more than one job, he was a laundry boy and a bus boy thats where most of the money came from. Also he published a poem called the Negro Speaks of Rivers where he dedicated to the W.E.B, thats where he got some money too. Langston Hughes was very successful in school, but Langston was frustrated and didnt feel comfortable with Columbia University so he stayed only one year. As he left he looked for a series of jobs he was being a mess boy on a ship that gave him a opportunity to see the world including Europe and Africa. After that he went back to college but it was at the Lincoln University in Pennsylvania he graduated there in 1929. http://washingtonart.com/beltway/hughes.html

http://www.arches.uga.edu/~csferry/hughes.html

http://www.duboislc.com/ShadesOfBlack/LangstonHughes.html

 

How did Hughes participation in the Harlem Renaissance influence him as a poet and author?

            Langston Hughes participated in the Harlem Renaissance by writing stories and plays. I think the plays is what helped him be a better writer to express things better, because it helped him use the words to articulate he thoughts and ideas. I                        

 think what influenced Langston Hughes as a poet  that his dad was a writer , that really gave Langston a  atmosphere of writing. Also what made Langston Hughes dad help him as a better writer was that rejected him and his mother because he lived with his grandmother. His parents did split thats why he  had to live with his grandmother but the was rejected from is mom and dad thats what his experience that helped him write his poems. What influenced him as a author was him writing stories and things also his experience at home probably had him wanting  to write and be a author.

 One of his quotes were When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul. Also Langston was black and bask then when you were black you had a lot of criticism. So by Langston experience that he out that in his poetry which helped his thoughts and views for him to express. Also what his poems I connected with were Let America be America again.

 Mother to son.

 Dreams

 

  I To Sing America.

I connected with these because he expressed him self that had me understand what he was really talking about and what he was saying . But the one I really connected was

 

 

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.

 

 

 

 

Well, son, I'll tell you:
Mother to Son

Life for me ain't been no crystal stair.
It's had
tacks in it,
And splinters,
And boards torn up,
And places with no carpet on the floor
Bare.
But all the time
I'se been a-climbin' on,
And reachin' landin's,
And turnin' corners,
And sometimes goin' in the dark
Where there ain't been no light.
So, boy, don't you turn back.
Don't you set down on the steps.
'Cause you finds it's kinder hard.
Don't you fall now
For I'se still goin', honey,
I'se still climbin',
And life for me ain't been no crystal stair.

 

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.

Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--

I, too, am
America.       

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I connected with these because he expressed him self that had me understand what he was really talking about and what he was saying . But the one I really connected was

             

   Let
                                    America be America again.
Let it be the dream it used to be.
Let it be the pioneer on the plain
Seeking a home where he himself is free.
 
(America never was America to me.)
 
Let America be the dream the dreamers
                                    dreamed--
Let it be
                                    that great strong land of love
Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme
That any man be crushed by one above.
 
(It never was America to me.)
 
O, let my land
                                    be a land where Liberty
Is crowned with
                                    no false patriotic wreath,
But opportunity is real, and life is free,
Equality is in the air we breathe.
 
(There's never been equality for me,
Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free.")
 
Say, who are you that mumbles in the dark? 
And who are you that draws your veil across the stars?
 
I am the poor white, fooled and pushed apart,
I am the Negro bearing slavery's scars.
I am the red man driven from the land,
I am the immigrant clutching the hope I seek--
And finding only the same old stupid plan
Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak.
 
I am the young man, full of strength and hope,
Tangled in that ancient endless chain
Of profit, power, gain, of grab the land!
Of grab the gold! Of grab the ways of satisfying need!
Of work the men! Of take the pay!
Of owning everything for one's own greed!
 
I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil.
I am the worker sold to the machine.
I am the Negro, servant to you all.
I am the people, humble, hungry, mean--
Hungry yet today despite the dream.
Beaten yet today--O, Pioneers!
I am the man who never got ahead,
The poorest worker bartered through the years.
 
Yet I'm the one who dreamt our basic dream
In the Old
                                    World while still a serf of kings,
Who dreamt a dream so strong, so brave, so true,
That even yet its mighty daring sings
In every brick and stone, in every furrow turned
That's made America the land it has become.
O, I'm the man who sailed those early seas
In search of what I meant to be my home--
For I'm the one who left dark Ireland's shore,
And Poland's plain, and England's grassy lea,
And torn from Black Africa's strand I came
To build a "homeland of the free."
 
The free?
 
Who said the free?  Not me?
Surely not me?  The
                                    millions on relief today?
The
                                    millions shot down when we strike?
The millions who have nothing for our pay?
For all the dreams we've dreamed
And all the songs we've sung
And all the hopes we've held
And all the flags we've hung,
The millions who have nothing for our pay--
Except the dream that's almost dead today.
 
O, let America be America again--
The land that never has been yet--
And yet must be--the land where every man is free.
The land that's mine--the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME--
Who made America,
Whose
                                    sweat and blood, whose faith and pain,
Whose hand at the foundry, whose plow in the rain,
Must bring back our mighty dream again.
 
Sure, call me any ugly name you choose--
The steel of freedom does not stain.
From those who live like leeches on the people's lives,
We must take back our land again,
America!
 
O, yes,
I say it plain,
America never was America to me,
And yet I swear this oath--
America will be!
 
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,

The rape and rot of graft, and stealth,
                                    and lies

Let America be America again, because I agreed with what he was saying about America and his views were a lot of my views of America of what it should be. http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/hughes.html

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/cgi-bin/page.cgi/aa/writers/hughes/renaiss_1http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6691&poem=60768

www.nku.edu/~diesmanj/hughes.html - 9k -

 

 

 

 

If Langston Hughes ever travel for writing books where did he travel?

                       One reason that Langston Hughes traveled was that he wanted to probably

get ideas to write a book. To see what the other side of the world was how different it was

how they lived . He traveled  to Hattie and Japan that really where he got a lot of ideas to write some books, it helped him and influenced him better. Also when he traveled it was during the  Soviet Union and thats where Hughes wrote a book called Goodbye Christ.

Another one of Langston Hughes quotes  Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly. One thing that helped me understand about Langston Hughes life was that he had a poor life like his mom was poor when her first husband died. Then she remarried and I think the step father was the one who was the writer because Langston was grown up more and had someone there to be influenced in writing. http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm

 

 

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                                                                                                                                                            Meghan Boyd

Expressive Writing & Langston Hughes                                                           

                                                                   

                                                                  

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expressive(adjective):  effectively conveying meaning or feeling

 

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*What college did Langston Hughes attend, how did he pay tuition for college, and when did he graduate

I think Langston graduated from Howard University college

He worked as a bus boy and laundry boy

He graduated in 1929

http://washingtonart.com/beltway/hughes.html

Wise Que How did Hughes participation in the Harlem Renaissance influence him as a poet and author?

Langston began writing plays and short stories, it influenced him as a poet

because the writing helped him inspire writing poems and to express things

 

http://teacherlink.ed.usu.edu/tlresources/units/Byrnes-famous/hughes.html

 

My Wise Question

 

If Langston Hughes ever travel for writing books where did he travel?

Langston Hughes did travel Haiti, and Japan

And it was during the Soviet Union where Hughes wrote a book called Goodbye Christ

http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm

Langston Hughes Quotes

 

Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it.

When peoples care for you and cry for you, they can straighten out your soul.

 Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/l/langston_hughes.html

 

Poem(s) I Connect With

 

 Let America be America again.

 Mother to son.

 Dreams

  I To Sing America.

http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6691&poem=60768

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Patterns in Langston Hughes life that help me understand & interpret his poems

That his mom was a poor woman and so was he in is writing his out things about his mom and there was a bond that helped me understand that.

Langston was a black man and black people had a lot criticism in his poetry he put that in there .

That he wrote stories and plays that influenced him better , and when he wrote poems the writing from before he did I think helped him do better of a job.

 http://www.ukans.edu/kansas/crossingboundaries/page6e1.html

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10th Grade
   Langston Hughes
        My Two wise questions:
        1) Can Langston Hughes writing effect the next generation?
        
         A: I think that Langston Hughes writing definatly effect the next generation, because he writes for the heart. His poetry is about the black people who have sufferend through the years of proverty. The next generation will always be effected in a good way because, when you keep reading poetry that goes to the heart it will always effect you. The next generation will relate to his writings because he was a man who struggled to make a living and struggled to have his voice heard through his poetry. Many generations that will come and now have a effect on their lives through people that have a voice.
 
2) How did Langston Hughes feel through achieveing his goals?
 
A: I think that Langston Hughes emotions were very thankful that he has achieved of his writings and touching peoples lives. His experiences such as being a bus boy, really humbled him to be the man he was. He is the few people on this earth that felt excited about writing because he knew his goals were to achieve his writing and poetry. He felt more astonished when he won the Bynner prize, when he felt done by the protest against him.