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The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
Dream Variations
The Tropics in New York
The Negro Speaks Of Rivers
• This poem is about describing the way rivers
are like people and combine different people
together because they carry the blood of the
land and compares life in Africa and in
America for blacks
Author of the poem
• The author is Langston Hughes
• He was born in Missouri on February 1, 1902
• He was raised by his grandmother until age 13, then
moved to Lincoln, IL
• His poems were mostly about what life was like for blacks
in the mid-20th century
• “I loved being down by the rivers when I was a young kid.
It’s the only place I can go to get away from everyone.“
Dream Variations
• This poem is about a guy who has a dream to
be able to do what he wants and for people
not to hate him just because of the color of his
skin, so if he wants to dance during the day or
work at night he can
Author of Dream variations
Langston Hughes was one of the most famous
black American poets of the 20th century and
also a social activist, novelist, playwright, and
columnist. He was one of the earliest
innovators of “jazz poetry”. He is best known
for his work during the Harlem Renaissance. A
famously thing that he wrote about the period
that "Harlem was in vogue."
The tropics in new York
• This poem is about how out of place and
homesick he feels in New York city and how he
found a place where they had bananas and
mangoes and other things so that reminded
him of where he grew up in his own country of
Jamaica
Author of The Tropics in New York
• Claude McKay was born in Jamaica in 1889.
• He was educated by his older brother, who had a
library of English novels, poetry, and scientific books
• At the age of twenty, he wrote a book called Songs of
Jamaica about what black life was like in Jamaica
• In 1912, he travelled to the United States to attend
Tuskegee Institute.
• In 1917, he wrote two sonnets, "The Harlem Dancer"
and "Invocation," and later used the same poetic form
to write about what he thought about how unfair life
was for blacks in America
• He also wrote about many other subjects, from his
home in Jamaica to poems about love