Langston Hughes –A Protest Poet

Abstract

This paper deals with the way, the protest poet— Langston Hughes had reflected on the problems of race in his poems. To unravel the secrets buried in the depth of his complex poetry, the readers have to carry the appropriate tools to know the social, political, and racial dimensions. There is a strong notion that the Black literature should be analyzed in social, political, and cultural contexts. The interpretation of the chosen poems of Langston Hughes is done against the Sociological background that the Black sensitivity is preconditioned to the interpretation of Black poetry. As a protest poet, Hughes had responded to the racialisation of society and the culture and politics of nineteenth-century United States and recorded his feelings in his poetry. The study examines the poems of Langston Hughes as protest poetry. Regardless of its call for revolution and counter-violence against oppression, the protest poetry of Hughes is distinguished by a quest for a better world where people can learn from the painful experiences of the past.