Langston Hughes Poems Analysis Essay

Langston Hughes purpose of these sets of metrical compositions was to outline the current condition for African Americans at that time, and also to display his desires and present the ideal conditions for African Americans. on a lower floor are several of his poems that has symbology and reflects and demonstrates his desires and ideals. In my opinion, Dream Variations demonstrates Hughes desire for African Americans to be able to enjoy the pleasures of life as white people did.When he says to whirl and to dance till the white day is done he is speaking of being able to be free, dancing and flinging your arms is exemplifying of freedom and an open expression of freedom. Then be able to lie at night and pay back a smell of peace of mind, knowledgeable that African Americans have the same opportunities that ashen Americans experienced. In Hughess poem Prayer Meeting, he displays a sense of consider and longing for service in African Americans lives and wanted African Americans to be free from oppression. resplendency HallelujahThe dawns a-comin demonstrates that freedom from oppression is on the horizon and that African Americans should rejoice. The setting of this poem in religion also demonstrates a sense of hope since religion is often sought after to achieve a sense of hope. In Song of the Revolution, this poem uses the symbology of the American Revolution as another cry for freedom from oppression, however this is freedom from the oppression of White America. Marching like fire over the world, weaving from the earth its silvery red banner uses fire as a symbol for hope and courage and the use of a red banner as article of faith and steadfastness.In the third stanza, which states Breaking the bond of the darker races, breaking the chains that have held for years, breaking the barriers dividing the people, smashing the gods of flagellum and tears This stanza serves as a call to arms for African Americans. This stanza is less symbolic and cryptic than the others. smashing the gods of terror and tears is the freedom from rulers and the establishment which has wronged and oppressed them. He wants a one of the races and a freedom and lack of oppression.In Let America Be America Again, hughes is using Americas calling as a beacon of hope to the world to demonstrates his ideal for America to truly be free and not simply as a saying. This is evident in the first stanza, which states Let America be America again, Let it be the dream in used to be, let it be the pioneer on the plain, seeking a home where he himself is free. The parenthesis between the stanzas is what is important, because it displays Hughess real opinion of America at that time, which was he doesnt believe in America, and to him was never a beacon of hope or a buck of liberty.He believes that America is tyrannical, oppressive, and discriminatory to him and his people. In the last stanza he also uses divisions of class and other races that are oppressed as reinfo rcement for his opinions of America. In the third stanza which states, O, let my land be a land where Liberty is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, but opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in the air we breath. Its demonstrating Hughess desire for America to really be as its envisioned and not simply as it is portrayed (in the eyes of Hughes) equality should be as prevalent and available as air.