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 subsequently help to shape them into individualized spirits. An individual’s character is an impression of their life. Langston Hughes, an incredibly famous African American artist and self-purported safeguard of African American legacy, strongly opposes the cliché and acknowledged type of verse at his own prudence. Despite the fact that Langston Hughes is a fruitful African American writer, he, in the same way as other different Harlemites, faces impediments and resistance along his excursion through life; nonetheless, Hughes grasps his difficulties and injects 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: Midnightâ₠¬  Hughes uncovers the consistent battle of an average African American living during the 1920’s. In â€Å"Mother to Son† Hughes communicates the distress of a mother who is on edge for her child to succeed. In the sonnet the mother plans to offer her child urging words and bestow to him the shrewdness and information she increases through driving forward. 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.