'The Black Man and Langston Hughes\r'

'The term indistinguishability is defined by Webster’s dictionary as organism â€Å"the state or fact of rest the same one or ones, as under varying aspects or conditions” in time in exploring the creation of Identity in black literature, we bunghole find no definite explanation or definition. We discharge try to accept that it has been rooted in social bewilderuations that ar generally more than discriminatory, such the institution of slavery. In round way shape or form, the mean(a) or normal African the Statesn is confronted with the head of where do I primed(p) in amongst the white society?\r\nThe line with African American Identity has human racey a(prenominal) dimensions, such as community, class, and coloring. The reality of the African American is one that is inescapable in America. Color which is inherent in the concept of self, manifest in race consciousness. This is exceedingly significant because an African American establishes his individuat ion with new(prenominal) individuals, known or unknown, on the basis of a similarity of color and features, that allowing the individual to be included in groups membership, â€Å"the subject of his self identity. After the African Americans began to search for their identity looking by dint of heritage, tradition, and folk traditions. Langston Hughes to me has been nourishing the black predispo moldion and inspiring it to create Afro American literation and transforming it into a â€Å"literature of struggle. ” The poetry of Langston Hughes has the theme of â€Å" I, as well as sing America” He do extraordinary contri saveions to American literature and has came to be regarded as a leading component part in the Renaissance of the arts in the 1920’s.\r\nHughes growing up asked the same question to himself of who he was, his lack of identity in society, which put a bighearted bear on on his mind and soul and do him a poet of the blacks. Hughes developed a perspicuous movement of â€Å"negritude” which may be regarded as the soul of the Renaissance. Rising from the consciousness of his shin color and passing through variant stages of identification with parking lotwealth and territory of Africa, and finally grounding it in the American Past. Negritude â€Å"in the poetry of Hughes evolves into a definite and bear concept expressive of definite fancy. He Hughes doesn’t suffer from what W. E. B Dubois price as a double consciousness. â€Å" 2 souls, cardinal persuasions, two unreconciled strivings, two warring ideals in one vestige body. ” Search for identity seems to be a vital aspect in the represent of Langston Hughes. The identity of an American black citizen was denied to him and thither was a loss of identity which a modern man living in the 20th century experiences. The unrelenting battalion of America are American, the African and desolate Americans are at the same time.\r\nAfrica which i s thought to be homeland for blacks, was dealt with by Langston Hughes, who helpless the natural beauty of Africa and dreaded organism caged in the mayhem of civilization. He searched his grow post in Africa. Primitivism had already become a fascinating alternative for people for people non provoke in the 2nd industrial revolution. It gave unseasoned meaning of going back to the grow and ones identity. The verse form â€Å"The total darkness Speaks of Rivers” is an example of the of the squeeze and need of the black to go back to his own land to find ethnical connections. The poet says: Ive known rivers:\r\nIve known rivers ancient as the public and older than the flow of benignant blood in human veins. In the poems entirety the rivers symbolize the glorious past, which consent been flowing since humanities inception. So the African who has known rivers cannot be rootless or with tabu past. Hughes also established a definite identity between the Blacks of Ameri ca and the incorrupt of Africa which he states in his poem called â€Å" total darkness” I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. Ive been a slave: Ive been a worker: Ive been a singer: all in all the way from Africa to Georgia\r\nI carried my grieve songs. It was not easy to just up and go back to Africa. It became the dreamland for the poet, a country in which he could bring out into when he finds life difficult to fill in with. The poet to me seemed widely aware of misery, frustration, and closing off which to him is something that other blacks are facing. This epiph any(prenominal) of his leans him to the universal significance and stir to the poets treatment of black life in America. His retreat into African is not a romantic escape from realities of life, that it provides a point of view to look at the realities of the life of black people in America.\r\nTo say the blacks were treated horribly by white Americans is an underst atement, they were compared to beasts and were treated accordingly. The black man was lynched, m take oned and burnt, while the black muliebrityhood was raped and desecrated. Lynching of the black on the charge of raping a white woman was one of the most commonplace events. caution to the race and hatred, for the black was a common behavior of the white masses. The treatments to the blacks becomes explicit in the following lines of â€Å"I, too sing America” I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother.\r\nThey trip me to eat in the kitchen When order comes, save I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. hence the stanza shows that the black worker doesnt find any place in the heart of the whites. He is sent to the background by the company bosses who are indifferent towards the blacks. The African American feels lonely in the northern metropolis where there are large The Negro feels lonesome in the northern city where there are a large number of people, yet he fluen t feels lost in the Poem â€Å" nonpareil” he relates his profound sense of isolation Lonely As a store of licker On a table altogether by itself.\r\nThe whites don’t grant the political easydom to the blacks. Blacks are wreak of their basic necessities of life. They don’t contract a proper place to bear in. Their miserable condition is shown in the poem â€Å"Vagabond” Who befuddle nowhere To eat. No place to sleep, The tearless Who cannot Weep. In this the blacks are alien on their own land. The blacks requirement a chance to eek out a decent living and generate tinge rights across America. Langston Hughes says â€Å"undemocratic doings take place in the shadow of the world’s greatest democracy” The blacks have no right to participate in the political affairs.\r\nLangston Hughes poetry is also absent-minded with the social problems faced by the blacks. humanity is called a social animal. Blacks are not given the equal place i n the society. The poet shows this inequality in the poem â€Å" gay Go Round” the social whites have no sympathy even for a young black child. He has to sit in a segregated fragment. Hughes writes: color in child at carnival: Where is the Jim Crowe section On this amusing-go-round, Mister, cause I ask to ride? Down South where I come from White and colored Cant sit side by side. Thus the merry go round is a metaphor for America.\r\nIt is a kind of Satire on the American Society which we know as a free Society. A draw picture of the exploitation of the blacks is presented that cultural, social, and psychological home has been denied to them. Hughes never forgetting the images he has seen growing up, he has grown up shell shocked. He can clearly make out the contradiction of principles, for America was a democracy, but for the Negroes, America was fighting for a free and equal world. One where Jim Crow was eradicated, moreover he understands that the flame of freedom c an not be extinguished by lynching and imprisoning blacks.\r\nFrom all this it become evident that Langston Hughes deals with the racial discrimination, lack of identity in the society and lack of freedom for the blacks. His aim and ultimate effect of his poetry is altitude awareness and strengthening of the black people in their struggle for freedom in America. He was proud of his Afro-American legacy and tradition. He forcefully projects the theme of identity in his poems. He not altogether inspires the black to make it to the top but more than that he evokes a vision of a just society. works sited\r\nGeorgene Seward, psychotherapy and Culture Conflict ( new-fangled York: Ronald Press, 1956), p. 129. Arthur A. Schaumburgs â€Å"The Negro take up his Past”, in Alain Lockes The spick-and-span Negro, pp. 931-37. Jay Saunders Redding, To Make a poet Black (Washington:McGrath, 1969), p. 3. mob A. Emanuel, Langston Hughes ( refreshed Haven: College and University Press, 196 7), pp. 148-162. W. E. B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk (New York: New American Library, 1969), p. 45. Langston Hughes, â€Å"The Negro Speaks of Rivers. ” Selected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 4.\r\nLangston Hughes, â€Å"Negro. ” Selected Poems (New York:Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 8. Langston Hughes, â€Å"I, too, Sing America. ” Selected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 275. Langston Hughes, â€Å"One. ” Selected Poems (New York:Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 92. Langston Hughes, â€Å"Vagabonds. ” Selected Poems (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 91. Langston Hughes, â€Å"The orotund Sea” The Collected Works of Langston Hughes ( New YorkJoseph Mclauren, 1979) Volume 13 P clxv Langston Hughes, â€Å"Merry-Go-Round. ” Selected Poems (NewYork: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979), p. 194.\r\n'