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Harlem Renaissance

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Langston Hughes, Dreams - Whether it was short or not his poem really spoke to me. What he is saying is don't let go of the dreams you have. If you let go of the dreams that you have then life is not the same and/or has no meaning. Everybody has a dreams to do something, so they should hold on to it and keep pushing forward to achieve it. Claude Mckay, America - The "her" in her poem is American. Mckay speaks about the hate and the love she has for the United States.She may hate her life her and the things that may happen here, but she still has that love for American whether she wants to or not. Langston Hughes,   Harlem- In his poem "Harlem" Hughes speaks about the change in Harlem. How prices go up, the difficulty to get a job and it being because he is colored. His life is in a complete struggle now due to the fact that he is a colored man. Now all they can do is re