HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY IN LANGSTON HUGHES' SELECTED POEMS

Abstract

This research underpins the significant role that Langston Hughes played in the construction of reality of the African-Americans identity, history and culture. The African-Americans are deprived of their rights as being first citizens in America for centuries. Poverty has dominated their lives. Hughes presents the spirit, struggle, suffering, heritage, history and culture of his ancestors to rebuild the future that the Black people hope to reach to it. Langston Hughes gives them the opportunity and hope to the African American people in the Harlem Renaissance to have a normal life as any other citizen in America.