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  Theme for English B

  Editor:Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 6. )

  199918 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Langston Hughes 1951 “Theme for English B” appeared in print relatively late in Langston Hughes’s career, and it both reenacts and complicates the ideas and poetic rhythms with which he had always been concerned....
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  Mother to Son

  Editors:Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 3. )

  199813 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Langston Hughes 1922 “Mother to Son” was first published in the magazine Crisis in December of 1922 and reappeared in Langston Hughes’s first collection of poetry, The Weary Blues in 1926. In that volume and later...
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  Harlem

  Editors:Marie Rose Napierkowski and Mary RubyFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 1. )

  199813 pages Critical essay, Work... Langston Hughes 1951 The brief poem “Harlem” introduces themes that run throughout Langston Hughes’s volume Montage of a Dream Deferred and throughout his career as a poet. This volume, published in 1951, focuses on...
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  The Negro Speaks of Rivers

  Editor:Michael L. LaBlancFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 10. )

  200115 pages Poem explanation, Cr... Langston Hughes 1921 “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” was the first poem published in Langston Hughes’s long writing career. The poem first appeared in the magazine Crisis in June of 1921 and was subsequently published in...
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  Dream Variations

  Editor:Anne Marie HachtFrom:Poetry for Students (Vol. 15. )

  200214 pages Poem explanation, Bi... Langston Hughes 1924 “Dream Variations,” like many of Langston Hughes’s most memorable poems, looks forward to a time beyond the poet’s life when the brutal policies of segregation would be a thing of the past. It was...