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Title: Langston Hughes


1
Langston Hughes
  • Vanessa Chung, Melissa Feriozzo, Sofia
    Ferreyro-Mazieres

2
Langston Hughes
  • Birth February 1, 1902.
  • Place of Birth Joplin, Missouri.
  • Ethnicity African American
  • Education White school in Topeka, KS
  • Death May 22, 1967.

3
Langston Hughes
  • Honors and Awards
  • - A leading runner and high jumper
  • - In 1921, he published his first poem, The Negro
    Speaks of Rivers, in Crisis magazine.
  • - In May 1925 his first book was The Weary Blues
    it got first place in poetry.
  • - In 1967, his last book of poetry, The Panther
    and the Lash, was published.

4
Langston Hughes
  • Interesting Facts
  • - In 1925, Hughes showed his work to American
    poet Vachel Lindsay. The following day, the media
    identified him as the "busboy poet."
  • - Hughes wrote the lyrics for the 1947 opera
    Street Scene.

5
Love Song for Lucinda
  •  
  • Love
  • Is a ripe plum
  • Growing on a purple tree.
  • Taste it once
  • And the spell of its enchantment
  • Will never let you be.
  • Love
  • Is a bright star
  • Glowing in far Southern skies.
  • Look too hard
  • And its burning flame
  • Will always hurt your eyes.
  • Love
  • Is a high mountain
  • Stark in a windy sky.
  • If you
  • Would never lose your breath
  • Do not climb too high.

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes - 1994.
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Theme
  • - Love is bittersweet enchanting, but hurtful
  • - The speaker is talking from his own experience
    with love
  • - Love can be kind, yet also painful
  • - Take chances with love, because it will reward
    you, but be careful because love can be dangerous
  • - Dont look too hard for love, but let it come
    to you

7
Lines That Show Theme
  • - Taste it once
  • And the spell of its enchantment
  • Will never let you be.
  • - Look too hard
  • And its burning flame
  • Will always hurt your eyes.
  • - If you
  • Would never lose your breath
  • Do not climb too high.

8
Figurative Language
  • - Love is compared to different objects in each
    stanza - metaphors
  • - The readers can grasp a better understanding of
    love through the use of examples
  • - There are three different analogies of love,
    that show it can be sweet, hurtful, and dangerous
  • - Metaphors help portray the theme in this poem
    because the author shows how different three
    objects are, yet they can all represent love
  • - Figurative language helps enhance the theme by
    directly comparing love to inanimate items

9
Lines That Show Figurative Language
  • - Love Is a ripe plum
  • - Love Is a bright star
  • - Love Is a high mountain

10
Imagery
  • Use of vivid or figurative language to represent
    objects, actions, or ideas.
  • In this poem, Langston Hughes allows us to
    visualize and picture the different thoughts he
    is feeling.
  • Imagery is used for a reader to feel the poem,
    not just understand it.
  • Enhances the theme by
  • Putting images into the readers mind so they
    can imagine the setting and tone more clearly.

11
Imagery Examples
  • Growing on a purple tree. makes poem come more
    alive because we are able to picture this tree
    growing out of the ground with a different
    appearance since it is purple.
  • High Mountain, stark in a windy sky. This
    example allows us to see images of the mountains
    and feel the wind blowing across our face.
  • bright star, glowing in far southern skies
    allows us to picture a beautiful shining star
    looking down at us from the sky, but then he
    writes and its burning flame, which switches
    our image to a painful, flaming fire. This
    demonstrates that love can be beautiful but it
    can also hurt you or cause pain in your heart if
    you get too attached.

12
Figures Of Sound
  • Rhyme this poem is a free verse poem, therefore
    there is no set rhyme pattern, but when read
    aloud, you can hear the rhyme between each line,
    for example, Growing on a purple tree / Will
    never let you be.
  • An interesting figure of sound that is discovered
    when this poem is read out loud, is that Langston
    Hughes wanted you to read the end of the poem as
    if you were out of breath
  • If you
  • Would never lose your breath
  • Do not climb too high.

13
Figures Of Sound
  • Consonance
  • windy sky

14
Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt
  • 'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun, Yes I saw
    you were blinded and I knew I had won. So I took
    what's mine by eternal right. Took your soul out
    into the night. It may be over but it won't stop
    there, I am here for you if you'd only care. You
    touched my heart you touched my soul. You changed
    my life and all my goals. And love is blind and
    that I knew when, My heart was blinded by you.

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Works Cited
  • Langston Hughes. Encarta. 21 Jan. 2005.
    http//encarta.msn.com/media_461577250_761556401_-
    1_1/Langston_Hughes_Quick_Facts.html
  • Langston Hughes. Books and Writers. 2003. 21
    Jan. 2005. http//www.kirjasto.sci.fi/lhughes.htm
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