Class Poet: An Analysis Of Langston Hughes

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Analysis of Langston Hughes On February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri, one of the greatest literary poets of all time, was born. Langston Hughes helped change the world through his works. As a leader of the infamous Harlem Renaissance; He had his own view on Black America and African Americans as well. Hughes is also credited for being one of the many innovators of a new literary art form called Jazz Poetry in which his love for poetry and literature came prior to the estranged relationship that he had with his father at the time. he was soon voted by a jury of his peers to be Class Poet in 1916. Upon publishing his first two poems in his school’s official magazine in 1918; he went to Toluca, Mexico to spend the summer with his father. (Hughes;
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