期刊名称：Researchers World - Journal of Arts Science & Commerce
印刷版ISSN：2229-4686
电子版ISSN：2229-4686
出版年度：2011
卷号：2
期号：3
页码：127-130
出版社：Educational Research Multimedia & Publication
摘要：During the twenties when most American poets were turning inward, writing obscure and esoteric poetry to an ever decreasing audience of readers, Hughes turns outward, using language and themes, attitudes and ideas familiar to anyone who has the ability simply to read. Hughes wants to celebrate, but not sanitize, the African American heritage that he cherishes. As Blacks have very few rights and privileges in society due to the color of their skin for that Hughes suggests that until black people think of themselves as not inferior to anyone, no one else will. He always tries to encourage his own people to feel proud of their individuality, of their own heritage, to appreciate their own diversity and culture. He just want African Americans to patronize their own business, see beauty in their own race and learn African history
关键词：African Americans; diversity; patronize; Beauty. ; var currentpos;timer; function initialize() { timer=setInterval("scrollwindow()";10);} function sc(){clearInterval(timer); }function scrollwindow() { currentpos=document.body.scrollTop; window.scroll(0;++currentpos); if (currentpos != document.body.scrollTop) sc();} document.onmousedown=scdocument.ondblclick=initializeJournal of Arts; Science & Commerce;¡ö;E-ISSN 2229-4686 ;¡ö;ISSN 2231-4172;International Refereed Research Journal ¡ö ;w;w;w;w;w;w;.;.;r;r;e;e;s;s;e;e;a;a;r;r;c;c;h;h;e;e;r;r;s;s;w;w;o;o;r;r;l;l;d;d;.;.;c;c;o;o;m;m ¡ö Vol.¨C II; Issue ¨C3; July 2011 [128] ;Introduction: ;Hughes has perhaps the greatest reputation (worldwide) that any black writer has ever had. ;Hughes differs from most of his predecessors among black poets; and (until recently) from those who ;followed him as well; in that he addressed his poetry to the people; specifically to black people. ;During the twenties when most American poets were turning inward; writing obscure and esoteric ;poetry to an ever decreasing audience of readers; Hughes turns outward; using language and themes; ;attitudes and ideas familiar to anyone who has the ability simply to read. Hughes wants to celebrate; ;but not sanitize; the African American heritage that he cherishes. In his poetry he aims to speak in a ;voice that is both personal and authentic; that expresses his own feelings but is spoken as people ;really talks and is thus accessible to a wide audience. He wants to portray black people's lives in a ;way that is both realistic and dignified. Basking in the high regard of his primary audience; which ;was black; Hughes always looked to them; especially black musicians; for direction and inspiration. ;His attempt; nevertheless; remains to seek and redefine his people's continual struggle to ;assert them against a background of social and political oppression. Jemie has also quoted in his ;preface that Hughes rebuked those writers who thought they had to run away from themselves in ;order to be "universal;" those who said they wanted to be "a writer; not a Negro (or black or African) ;writer"; those writers who saw no beauty in black life and who therefore avoided black themes and ;styles or deprecated the black heritage or apologized for it in their writings.1 For his faithful ;representation of his people's plight; Hughes is celebrated as the poet-laureate of his ethnicity. ;Leopold Senghor; the noted Senegalese poet and exponent of African negritude; finds Hughes "the ;most spontaneous as a poet and the blackest in expression."2 His 'blackness;' an informed reader ;knows; is deeply rooted in his atavistic Africa¡ªits blues and jazz; gospels; beauty and racial features. ;Hughes in his Spingarn Speech issues a definitive answer: ;There is so much richness in Negro humor; so much beauty in black dream; so much dignity ;in our struggle; and so much universality in our problems; in us-in each living human being of color- ;that I don't understand the tendency today that some American Negro artists have of seeking to ;running away from us; of being afraid to sing our own songs; paint our own pictures; write about ;ourselves-when it is our music that has given America its greatest music; our humor that has enriched ;its entertainment media¡ could you possibly be afraid that the rest of the world will not accept it. So ;I would say to young writers; don't be afraid of yourselves; you are the world.3 ;The poetic persona in a poem titled "Lament For Dark People" feels uprooted as he has been ;driven out of his atavistic Africa and; now; feels encaged in the land of dreams: ;I was a red man one time; ;But the white man came. ;I was a black man; too; ;But the white man came. ;They drove me out of the forest. ;They took me away from the jungle. ;I lost my trees. ;I lost my silver moons. ;Now they've caged me ;In the circus of civilization. ;Now I herd with the many¡ª ;Caged in the circus of civilization.4
