Hughes Use of Detail

The Harlem Renaissance was powerfully remembered and embraced era in black history. “Theme for English B” published in 1959 is a poem written by Langston Hughes in which a black student takes a basic writing assignment and uses it to voice about the struggle for equality during the time of the Harlem Renaissance. Hughes was notorious for writing poems about real life issues and experiences. Hughes’ voice grew in the black society as voice of the people because he...