LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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He was a native New Yorker who did not travel much but who was keenly aware of New York’s complexity and diversity.
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He moved to New York from Alabama and the stark contrast between these places deeply influenced his writing.
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He was born in Missouri and traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world before he moved to New York City.
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He spent most of his life in Washington, DC, moving to Harlem only after he gained literary fame.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Langston Hughes was a defining figure of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance as an influential poet, playwright, novelist, short story writer, essayist, political commentator and social activist.
Detailed explanation-2: -One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance. He famously wrote about the period that “the Negro was in vogue", which was later paraphrased as “when Harlem was in vogue."
Detailed explanation-3: -Langston Hughes (1901-1967) As the most influential and widely celebrated voice of the Harlem Renaissance, Hughes also wrote essays, novels, short stories and plays, all of which centered and celebrated Black life and pride in African American heritage.
Detailed explanation-4: -The most well-known poet of the Harlem Renaissance was Langston Hughes. He has served as an inspiration for generations of poets. Some of the other well-known poets of that era include Paul Lawrence Dunbar, James Weldon Johnson, Claude McKay, Countee Cullen, and Arna Bontemps.