words. An African American Hughes became a well known poet, novelist, journalist, and

Because his father emigrated to Mexico and his mother was often away, Hughes was

brought up in Lawrence, Kansas, by his grandmother Mary Langston. Her second husband

(Hughes's grandfather) was a fierce abolitionist. She helped Hughes to see the cause of social

As a lonely child Hughes turned to reading and writing, publishing his first poems while

in high school in Cleveland, Ohio. In 1921 he entered Columbia University, but left after an

unhappy year. Even as he worked as a delivery man, a messmate on ships to Africa and Europe,

a busboy, and a dishwasher, his poetry appeared regularly in such magazines as The Crisis

(NAACP) and Opportunity (National Urban League).1 As a poet, Hughes was the first person to

combine the traditional poetry with black artistic forms, especially blues and jazz.

As a leader in the Harlem Renaissance of the twenties and thirties Hughes became the

movements best known poet. He published two poetry collections, The Weary Blues (1926) and

Fine Clothes to the Jew (1927).2 Mainly becaus

Langston Hughes.Hughes Life and Career .Arnold Rampersad.online. Oxford University Press.

blues man playing as if to make known to the world the distance between the poet and “his

African American Voices.Conneticutt:The Millbrook Press, 1995

Defender, where he created a comic but keen black urban Every man, Jesse B. Semple.3

To the tune of those weary blues”11

problems that come between someone and there dream. As the speaker begins to break through

The Poem “Harlem Night Club” tells the story of how when together in the night clubs

dream. The poem also depends on an interplay between brightness and darkness. This is used to

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