THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Hughes receiving his first B in a college class
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The theme of a poem Hughes read for his college class
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A paper Hughes was asked to write for his English class in college.
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -“Theme for English B” was published the American poet Langston Hughes in 1951, toward the end of Hughes’s career. The poem is a dramatic monologue written in the voice of a twenty-two-year-old black college student at Columbia University in New York City.
Detailed explanation-2: -”Theme for English B” was a poem written by Langston Hughes in 1951, during the Harlem Renaissance and at the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement.
Detailed explanation-3: -The speaker of “Theme for English B” self-identifies as a black person, “the only colored student in my class.” For the first half of the poem, the speaker emphasizes the ways in which his ethnicity separates him, physically and figuratively, from his white classmates and professor.
Detailed explanation-4: -Theme for English B by Langston Hughes.