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Langston Hughes was one of the greatest poets to every lived born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902. Langston wasn't just a poet he was novelist, playwright, and a columnist. Langston was known of for his work when the Harlem Renaissance came his was famously wrote about the peroid that "Harlem was in vogue."

__**Biography**__ Langston started writing poems when he was in the eigth grade going to Central Highschool in Cleveland, Ohio. He published his first poem called "The Negro Speaks Of Rivers" when he dropped out of his degree course. The Negro Speaks Of Rivers was also one of his famous poems he had wrote. His poems and writings was used in the NAACP publication like their magazines. Before his death in 1967 he wrote sixteen books of poems, two novels, three collections of short stories, four volumes of "editorial" and "documentary" fiction, twenty plays, children's poetry, musicals and operas, three autobiographies, a dozen radio and television scripts and dozens of magazine articles. In addition, he edited seven anthologies.

**__Writers Style__**
Langston Hughes uses alot of styles when he writes his poem he uses figure of speech he also writes about the real world and the things that goes on in life. ==**The Negro Speaks Of Rivers by Langston Hughes ** I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. media type="file" key="Cameron.mp3" width="240" height="20"I like the "The Speaks Of Rvivers" because it is talking about how rivers have helped negros during slavery.Langston Hughes wrote this poem when he got out of high school he wrote this poem because when he was going to see his father in mexcio he saw a river outside the window and he relized how it linked to his history of slavery. **__Anylasis__**   Justice by Langston Hughes    That Justice is a blind goddess Is a thing to which we black are wise: Her bandage hides two festering sores That once perhaps were eyes. The poem Justice by Langston Hughes is all about black people hiding their true self and this god that they folow is blind and has two sores that were her eyes. ==