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Hughes and His Women
Title: Hughes and His Women
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 2096 | Pages: 8.9 (approximately 235 words/page)
Hughes and His Women
Hughes and His Women
Were Eve’s eyes
In the first garden
Just a bit too bold?
Was Cleopatra gorgeous
In a gown of gold?
“Jazzonia”
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 …showed first 75 words of 2096 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 2096 total…powerful and realistic.
Works Cited
Hughes, Langston. “Jazzonia.” Meyer 1017.
---. “Mother to Son.” Rampersad, Roessel 30.
---. “Red Silk Stockings.” Meyer 1022-1023.
---. “Rent-Party Shout: For a Lady Dancer.” Meyer 1023.
Meyer, Michael, ed. The Bedford Introduction to Literature.
Boston: Bedford/St. Mautius, 1999.
Moore, Lisa, ed. Literature Online. 29 Nov. 2000.
Rampersad, Arnold. The Life of Langston Hughes. Vol 1. New
York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1986.
Rampersad, Arnold, ed., and Roessel, David, ed. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.
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