“I want to be a poet—not a Negro poet” (Hughes 348). In his essay “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain,” Langston Hughes covers many important points but his hook is one to mention. This hook focuses a lot on the main issue of the essay itself. The issue is that the negro poets want to write like the white poets implying that colored artists want to be white. This then leads to the fact that the white audiences turned to the artists of color and saw them as stereotypical entertainment mainly because these black artists were afraid of being themselves. Langston Hughes’s poem, “The Weary Blues” engages with themes of the Harlem Renaissance and the content of the poem expresses various issues Hughes discussed in “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain.” The poem, “The Weary Blues” is a powerful poem because it highlights the cultural traditions of the African American descent during a time of the Harlem Renaissance. The audience is able to …show more content…
Within this movement, African American musicians wanted to capture the traditions of black culture with their touching and soothing jams. This movement is important because it awakened a blossoming black cultural identity and it was an overall attempt for racial uplift and recognition among African Americans. During the 1920s, many jobs were available in the North so many African Americans left the South and decided to settle in the North in search of something better for themselves. A huge portion of these African Americans decided to reside in Harlem. Very rapidly, Harlem turned into the city with the largest population of African Americans. Langston Hughes was one of the most popular of the many writers connected with the Harlem Renaissance. In his poems, he integrated the themes of the Harlem Renaissance such as racial identity, self-acceptance, and the desire of