Hughes and His Women
Langston Hughes devoted his art, writing, to the true expression of the lives, hopes, fears, and angers of ordinary black people, without the self-consciousness or sugar coating (Moore). Hughes not only focused on black people's lives in general; he went into detail about their hopes, their fears, their accomplishments, and their failures. Hughes's poetry expressed the pride he held of the black race and his pride in being one, or at least part of one. Hughes would dedicate his entire life to writing poetry and books about "his" people: the Negro race. One of the subjects Hughes focused on in his poetry were women. Hughes's women were always mistreated, yet always proud and bold, taking matters into their own hands, in most cases. Hughes sympathizes with black women, and writes poems to express the situations they lived through by writing about them, and in some cases expressing his view of women, and writing through a woman's point of view to express the hardships of their lives. During Hughes's career, he was criticized for his writings as "straightforward treatments of the harsh
Rampersad, Arnold, ed., and Roessel, David, ed. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994. Meyer, Michael, ed. The Bedford Introduction to Literature.
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Approximate Word count = 2065
Approximate Pages = 8 (250 words per page double spaced)
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