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Mojahed AlTorkestani

English 1020

Dr.Rebecca

01/28/16

Langston Hughes

The social, historical, and cultural contexts are influencing factors of poetic movements. To comprehend this, perceive literature, for example, poetry, are not made in a vacuum but rather are the result of numerous impacts that influence the ways in which the poets compose and the courses in which the audience reads and decipher their work. This paper is an analysis of poem “Theme for English B,” by famed poet Langston Hughes in its social, historical, and cultural context. The segregation in America influenced the writers to write about the issues of discrimination in their poetry paving way for the rise of the Harlem Renaissance.

In the poem, ‘Theme for English B’ he introduces the predicament of the African American scholar in the era of Jim Crow Laws. The poetic narrative fixates on a youthful student whose teacher has requested that he compose a page about himself with the proviso that the page should be "valid." The speaker considers himself; taking note of that he is twenty-two years of age, "coloured," and a student in a New York Collage. As he strolls home, he understands that he is the only "coloured" learner in his class. This was a typical event during the discriminatice Jim Crow time, since African Americans had more trouble getting access into first class schools than their white companions (Pbs.org).

Hughes dependably stayed faithful to the standards he had set down for the more youthful black scholars in 1926 (Rampersad). In his paper 'The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain', he pursues the disconnect that exists between the middle and high-class African American families had where the high-class families were more white than 'coloured' (Hughes, 31). However, despite the aping of these families now of them was free from the affliction of racism. This is evident in the poem where the speaker identifies himself with Harlem. He could hear the sounds of Harlem in the New York Streets. This implies that the pains of racism are felt on all levels.

Langston's specialty was immovably established in race pride and race feeling. He is attributed as a propagator of the Harlem Renaissance. There was both patriot and cosmopolitan. As a radical democrat, he trusted that art ought to be open to whatever number individuals as could be allowed. He could here and there be intense; however, his craft is suffused by a sharp feeling of the perfect and by a significant adoration for humankind, particularly black Americans. In ‘Theme for English B’, Hughes addresses issues the vast majority of America was constituent to imagine did not exist. Racial relations, class divergence, and different types of social stratification were ideas outside the perfect "America" of myth and revisionist memory. He brings up that "being coloured doesn't make me not care for the same things different people like who are different races," indicating the way that Americans had significantly more in like manner in mainstream culture at any rate than they may have envisioned. It was his belief that the all individuals were equal and color should not be something to be ashamed rather it should be appreciated.

In conclusion, Langston Hughes was a propagator of the Harlem movement and a keen fighter against racial discrimination. The times of discriminative Jim Crow laws and the Harlem Renaissance are prominent in his poetry there by reaffirming the social, historical and cultural contexts as influenced in the poetic movements. Through this poem, Langston Hughes affirms that there are various types of Americans, and there is no particular characterizing "American" experience. White or black, old or young, free or oppressed– all can take a stab at a bit of the American Dream. This sonnet is along these lines a great deal more idealistic than some of Hughes' later works on this topic.

Work Cited

Hughes, Langston. "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” 1926." The Collected Works of Langston Hughes 9 (1773): 31-36.

Pbs.org,. "The Rise And Fall Of Jim Crow. Jim Crow Stories. The Harlem Renaissance | PBS". Web. 2 Feb. 2016.

Rampersad, Arnold. "Hughes's Life And Career--By Arnold Rampersad". English.illinois.edu. Web. 2 Feb. 2016.