Langston Hughes

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November 17, 2016

 

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Hughes was influenced by several things. One of which was a famous poet named Walt Whitman. Other things that influenced Hughes were racism, music, and ironically his own depression. Langston Hughes was particularly inspired by Walt Whitman so much so that he took Whitman's book, Leaves of Grass, with him when he traveled to Africa in the early 1920s , and edited a collection of Whitman's work in 1946...
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Hughes was first introduced to Walt Whitman's work in his 8th grade English class. In Hughes' junior year, he published his first poem in free verse, one that showed the clear influence of Walt Whitman for the first time (Bloom, 90). Hughes praised how Whitman's "...all embracing words lock arms with workers and farmers, Negroes and whites, Asiatics and Europeans, serfs and free men, beaming democracy to all...
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