Get Langston Hughes Harlem Pictures. Langston hughes became the most influential poet of the harlem renaissance. Reprinted by permission of harold ober associates, inc.

What happens to a dream deferred? Most of his works focus on race relations in the 1920s and 1930s in the united states. As far back as i can remember, i have adored poetry.

The great depression was over, the war was over, but for african americans the dream.

The brief poem harlem introduces themes that run throughout langston hughes s volume montage of a dream deferred and throughout his ca reer as a poet. Hughes wrote this when jim crow laws were still imposing an bitter segregated society in the south. In harlem, langston hughes asks one of american poetry's most famous questions: In his memory, his residence at 20 east 127th street in harlem has been given landmark status by the.