Struggles of African Americans in Langston Hughes’ Poems, Mother to Son

Battles of African Americans in Langston Hughes’ Poems, Mother to Son and Lenox Avenue: Midnight The encounters, exercises, and states of one’s life give a wellspring of motivation to one’s imaginative articulations and thoughts. All through life individuals experience circumstances and conditions that thusly help to shape them into individualized spirits. An individual’s character is an impression of their life. Langston Hughes, an incredibly famous African American writer and self-affirmed safeguard of African American legacy, intensely opposes the cliché and acknowledged type of verse at his own carefulness. Despite the fact that Langston Hughes is an effective African American artist, he, in the same way as other different Harlemites, faces snags and restriction along his excursion through life; notwithstanding, Hughes grasps his difficulties and imbues his background into poetical works that his kindred African Americans can identify with in some way or another. In the two his sonnets â€Å"Mother to Son† and â€Å"Lenox Avenue: Midnight† Hughes uncovers the consistent battle of a run of the mill African American living during the 1920’s. In â€Å"Mother to Son† Hughes communicates the urgency of a mother who is on edge for her child to succeed. In the sonnet the mother would like to offer her child urging words and grant to him the astuteness and information she increases through continuing on. While in the last sonnet, â€Å"Lenox Avenue: Midnight,† Hughes uncovers the social parts of a city during the Harlem Renaissance and passes on the feelings of a quintessential African American Harlemite dependent on his own his encounters as an African American writer living in Harlem, NY. Hughes uncovered in the two sonnets the genuine nature, as he sees it, of life as an African American in 1920’s white America. ... ...g covered up inside the expressions of his sonnet. Works Cited Harper, Donna. Thomson Gale. 12, March 2003. <http://www.galegroup.com> Hughes, Langston. â€Å"The Harlem Renaissance.† Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. third Compact ed. New York: Longman, 2003. 767-769. Hughes, Langston. â€Å"Lenox Avenue: Midnight.† Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. third Compact ed. New York: Longman 2003. 760. Hughes, Langston. â€Å"Mother to Son.† Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, and Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. third Compact ed. New York: Longman 2003. 759. Pinckney, Darryl. â€Å"Black Identity in Langston Hughes.† Literature: An Introduction to Fiction, Poetry, And Drama. Ed. X.J. Kennedy and Dana Gioia. third Compact ed. New York: Longman 2003. 772-773.