Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes is considered by many to be the most influential writer to come out of the Harlem Renaissance. He became famous for the themes he chose to write about. In the poems Negro, Lament over Love, Me and the Mule, and Let America be America Again, Langston Hughes used the themes of freedom versus authority, society, and the life of African Americans as a reflection of popular culture during the Harlem Renaissance.

One of Langston Hughes's most famous poems is Let America be America again. It is quite long, and full of metaphors about freedom. He sees that it is not only African Americans who are struggling for freedom, but also many other Americans. "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 stupid plan Of dog eat dog, of mighty crush the weak." It is because many are struggling under the mighty that Langston Hughes has much more socialist views toward how