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 ** Langston Hughes **  **// (February 1, 1902-May 22, 1967) //**


 * // He was born in Joplin, Missouri. He was an American poet, a novelist, playwright and a columnist. He was one of the new literary art form jazz poetry. Laughter inspired Langston Hughes to write poems. Hughes life and work were enormously influential during the Harlem Renaissance . //**

**// One of the characteristics Langston Hughes used in his poems were Blues. He did this to express his feelings. He uses figure of speech and rhyme scheme. //**

** Dream Deferred **** by Langston Hughes ** What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun?

Or fester like a sore-- And then run?

Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over-- like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags like a heavy load.

**//Or does it explode? //**

I say this is my favorite poem because it's unique from any other poem that I've read. It has a lot of similes that compare things to food. For example: Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?

** Still Here **** by Langston Hughes ** I been scared and battered. My hopes the wind done scattered. Snow has friz me, Sun has baked me,

Looks like between 'em they done Tried to make me

Stop laughin', stop lovin', stop livin'-- But I don't care! I'm still here!

This poem is talking about how you can still be you living on earth, as long as you don't care nor pay attention to what other people say. This poem is used English language. It has a few similes and metaphors and it have a rhyme scheme. The narrator is the one who is telling the poem out. The audience is one who is listening and who tries to understand what the narrator means of this poetic poem.