Poet Hughes Profile, Hughes Character Profile

Love for one's own nation and pride in the civilization and dignity of one's race are fully embodied in the famous poem "The Negro Talks about the River".

The poem was written in one go during Hughes' journey to Mexico by car, which he himself says "took from ten minutes to a quarter of an hour." The poet talks about the process of writing the poem, from his father's "strange disgust" for his own people, to his disability to understand his father's thoughts, because "I am a black man, and I like black people very much." Then the psalmist talks about the train slowly passing over the iron bridge over the Mississippi River, and he thinks of the fate of the Negro from this ancient river, of Lincoln** who personally took a raft down the Mississippi River to New Orleans in order to abolish slavery, and of the other rivers of the Negro man's past life: the Congo, the Niger, and the Nile in Africa.

Thus the poem was born. After reading the poem, it is not difficult to see that the poet recounts the entire history of civilization of black Americans from "Pangu Kaitian", African ancestors, to becoming black Americans. Negroes are an ancient race that has toiled on the land and contributed to the history of mankind.

Although this poem does not directly describe the suffering and struggle of black people, it can arouse the national pride and pride of black people, can arouse their desire for freedom, and can strengthen their confidence in fighting for a better future. The poem is written concisely, deeply, and with a slow pace, but it contains unfathomable power.

Hughes's poetry draws nourishment from black and folk songs, incorporating the rhythm of jazz into free verse, so that his poems are open, stretched, and the rhythm is as passionate as jazz. His poems are fresh in style, profound in artistic conception, and have a touching power that shocks people's hearts, and has had a significant impact on the development of modern black literature in the United States and black African poetry.

At the same time, he was also influenced by the American poet Walt Whitman, Walt Whitman's "I Hear American Singing" led Hughes to create "I, Too, Sing America", about the status of black people in the United States, in the poem, Hughes compared black people to white people do not like brothers, when the guests came, they had to go to the kitchen to eat, but they silently became strong, one day, they would eat at the dinner table with their white brothers, At the same time, it will also let people see how powerful he is.

The 1963 popular "I Have a Dream" by black leader Martin Luther King Jr. is directly related to Hughes's poem about "dreams." In his 1926 publication in The Nation, The Black Artist and the Mountain of Race, he fearlessly declared: "We, the young black writers who are engaged in the process of creation, have the aim of expressing our black selves without fear or shame."

If white people like it, we're happy; It doesn't matter if they don't like it. …If blacks like it, we're happy; If they don't like it, it doesn't matter if they dislike it......This literary manifesto inspired countless black humanists and established him as a leader in the Harlem Renaissance movement.

Langston Hughes (1902-1967) was a pivotal figure in American literature, especially in black literature. Only he has written works in various genres such as **, drama, prose, history, and biography of Changshan Cong, and has also translated Spanish and French poetry into English, and even passed the anthologies of other black writers, but he is mainly known for his poetry Naizakura, and is known as "the poet laureate of the black nation" and the poet laureate of Harlem.