American poets

Langston Hughes is a well-known African American Poet. Hughes had many literary talents he wrote short stories, novel, screenplays, plays, autobiographer, and children’s books. Hughes also had a very powerful voice which encourages many people to follow him. Langston devoted a lot of his literatures to the economics, politicians, and social issues that were going in the world. He was also a very important figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Langston Hughes grew up in a time period during racial segregation. He also got to experience integration. Hughes did not only struggle in society, but he also had family struggles. Langston was born February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. He died at the age of sixty-five. He was born to the parents of James…

Unit 3- Essay Gwendolyn Brooks Gwendolyn Brooks was an extremely famous American Poet. She is particularly famous to be the first black author to win the Pulitzer Prize. (Gwendolyn Brooks.) Her poems usually covered political topics and related to the injustice faced by the black and underprivileged communities. Her work stand out to me because she expresses such profoundly important and critical issues in the simplest of manners that they can be understood by a young child. Although she uses…

Paul Dunbar was a man who was a poet, a novelist, and a speaker. He was the first African American writer to earn an international audience. He was born on june 27, 1872 in Dayton Ohio. His parents were freed slaves by the names of Matilda and Joshua Dunbar. Soon after he was born his parents split up but he still had a close bond with both his mother and father. When dunbar was four his mother taught him how to read. Then at the age of six he started to read and recite poems. In 1886 for high…

In every American household there is the ultimate goal to achieve the “American Dream”. And every household holds a different version of the “American Dream”. But what is the proper version of the “American Dream”? How can we achieve it? Who has access to it? For the majority of people, myself included, one would argue that the “American Dream” is to utilize the system of capitalism, to achieve financial success, materialistic belongings, have a family and to be healthy and stable when retired.…

Two poets describe the American plight and experience of the 19th and early 20th century in more detail and emotion than any other poets – Walt Whitman and Carl Sandburg. From two different generations, the younger writer’s content and style is very much an extension of his elder, Whitman. Both write, in a very casual style, about the suffering of the common man that they saw firsthand; Whitman’s “I Sit and Look Out” and Sandburg’s “Chicago” provide great examples of their observations of the…

Emily Dickinson, an introverted American poet with epilepsy, wrote her way into the world of literature in a distinctive and intriguing manner. Her words, while often unrhymed, have left a perpetual ringing in the minds of her readers. Her poems will forever provide them with wonder, however, one may find themselves speculating about what influenced Miss Dickinson to write her poetry the way that she did. Richard Wilbur, an American poet, described Emily Dickinson with the following quote; “I…

The slave owners denying African American 's of the ability to learn dehumanized the salves into submission. “Our masters always tried to hide Book learning from our eyes; Knowledge did’nt agree with slavery— ’Twould make us all too wise,” (Harper, n.d.). The slaves were raised by the opressors to believe that they were unworthy of eduaction. However, as Harper 's story describes, slaves stole literature and learned in private. Again studying Chole refering to herself as a queen shows…

class black African American people. In this poem, he compared the beauty of nature to the beauty of his people. My people is a very short poem, built in three stanzas which consist of two lines in each stanza. This poem was written in simple language, therefore, the readers can easily understand what he is trying to convey. I believe, beneath its simple words, this poem depicts the beauty of working class black African American people that go beyond the beauty of physical appearance. In this…

During the Poem “Song of Myself” Walt Whitman examines the complex idea of belonging in society by using sly commentary and symbols alike, while writing with a seemingly egotistical style. This piece was one of the twelve poems from the original collection of “Leaves of Grass” published in 1855, which was shortly before the Civil War started. This was a time of despair for Whitman because he was living in a fractured union. During this piece Whitman used many evocative situations to capture the…

Vinh Lee AP English July 19 2016 In Virginia Woolf’s excerpt from “Moments of Being,” she describes her adolescent years from her childhood when she would spend her summers in Cornwall, England. She uses many different kinds of language to convey and improve her memories as a child. In the excerpt she uses imagery and tone to help convey her memories with her family. Virginia Woolf uses specific events at the lake to explain her time with her father and how he gave her advice on being…