Racial Identity Themes in Hughes Poetry
Words: 755 Pages: 3 6142Do you know what it feels like to have the weight of the city on your back? Every street you cross and every turn you make, someone is there telling you that you don't belong. In Langston Hughes's poem "Theme for English B," he captures this sentiment of alienation and struggle, particularly in the lines, "But I guess I’m what I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you" (Hughes, 1951, lines 17-18). Hughes explores the tension between personal […]