The poem America by Claude McKay is a poem connecting what America should be and what it stands for and what it actually is. McKay explains how he feels about America. He mentions the American dream; yet how difficult it is to conquer the task due to all the problems we are faced by our country, especially racism. While the American dream is supposed to be a land of opportunity, McKay see’s America as a country that does not live up to the American dream that everyone hopes for, yet he see’s it as
enthusiasm and critic. Criticism and frustration could be found in many forms during this time period but the best way to find them and get them across was through writing. Authors and poets such as Francis Scott Fitzgerald, Langston Hughes, and Claude McKay wrote essays and poems that not only showed what
flocked uptown to Harlem to hear Duke Ellington play or to watch the cotton club beauties dance. A variety of blacks contributed to the Harlem Renaissance as political leaders, entrepreneurs, and creative artists. Langston Hughes’ poem ‘I, Too, Sing America,’ portrays that black Americans are also beautiful and waiting for other people to see for
part of a collective project identified by race is what energized the movement. I will be talking about the underside or complex predicament of the Harlem Renaissance- and how that is depicted in the poetry of Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen and Claude McKay. I will pick up from Alain Locke’s description of the New Negro (as the authors of the Harlem Renaissance were considered as representatives the “New Negro”)- for him there were two negroes-the poor black masses changing the geography of American
United States because it is safer and more opportunities for employment and jobs, as well as the opportunity to enroll their children in schools and the right to vote in elections. Indeed is that a part of his stolen rights in the southern part of America. As for the problem of racism, it does not end. Many of the famous writers of that era have appeared like W. E. B. DuBois (1868-1963) born in
literary trend; while modernism was established on a basis of the blues’ new way of expressing what is seeing (Young). In writing blue poems, Hughes used specific irony and earthy tone for describing such themes as struggle, sex, race and despair. In the essay, “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston expressed his ashamed attitude towards black poets, who wanted to act not as a Negro poet, but as just a poet without race. He was always honest in his writings about the society in which he was
musicians included people like Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Dizzy Gillespie, and Louis Armstrong (Anderson 4). Poets included Langston Hughes, Claude McKay, James Weldon, and Countee Cullen (Bloom 7). All have made enormous contributions to the Harlem Renaissance period, and in American history. For those who were part of the Harlem Renaissance, White America romanticized ideal of happy black folk singing their worries and cares only to encourage the poverty and injustice to flourish (Kareem 9). African-Americans
combination of music, cheerfulness, and culture. Hughes spoke essay spoke to the concerns of the Harlem Renaissance as it celebrated African American creative innovations such as blues, spirituals, jazz, and literary work that engaged African American life. essay spoke to the concerns of the Harlem Renaissance as it celebrated African American creative innovations such as blues, spirituals, jazz, and literary work that engaged African American life. essay spoke to the concerns of the Harlem Renaissance as it