About this title: Hughes identified it as his mission as a writer "to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America." His poetry was heavily influenced by black oral tradition, jazz, and folklore, and he continually attempted to mirror the black experience, in all its diversity, in his work.
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Edition: 1st Vintage Classics Edition; First Printing
Binding: Trade Paperback
Publisher: Vintage, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679764083ISBN:0679764089
Description: Fine. 0679764089. 1.9 x 9 x 6 Inches; 736 pages. read more
Edition: First edition.
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Vintage Classics
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679426318ISBN:0679426310
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Clean text. 717 p. Audience: General/trade. Comprehensive collection. A must for serious fans of Langston Hughes. read more
Edition: Later Printing
Binding: Quality Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Classics / Vintage Books, New York
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679764083ISBN:0679764089
Description: Very Good Plus. Currently in print for $19.95. NO marks or underlining. This item is IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE. read more
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1994-11-15
ISBN-13:9780679426318ISBN:0679426310
Description: Like New. This is a great book in like new condition with slight signs of shelf wear. Dust jacket is torn on top corner, otherwise new. We provide USPS confirmation tracking and email when we ship. We want your complete satifaction. read more
Edition: First Thus
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679764083ISBN:0679764089
Description: Fine+ No Jacket. 717pp including index Short red pencil mark on side Cover lightly soiled. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1995-11-01
ISBN-13:9780679764083ISBN:0679764089
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780679764083. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679764083ISBN:0679764089
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf Incorporated, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780679426318ISBN:0679426310
Description: VG+/VG+ 0679426310 3rd printing, hardcover. 708p. navy cloth / gilt titles. VG+/VG+: sl. edgewear to jacket. "The first complete collection of Hughes's poetry: 860 poems that sound the heartbeat of black life in America during five turbulent decades, from the 1920's throught the 1960's. " )from the jacket) read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
Date Published: 1994-11-01
ISBN-13:9780679426318ISBN:0679426310
Description: NEW. Hardcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780679426318. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Knopf
Date Published: 1994
ISBN-13:9780679426318ISBN:0679426310
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: Uncorrected proof copy of the first edition.
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
Date Published: 1994
Description: A near fine copy. HUGHES, Langston. THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LANGSTON HUGHES. Arnold Rampersad, Editor. David Roessel, Associate Editor. Large octavo, printed wrappers, pp. viii, 689. read more
Description: Good. Only lightly used. Book has minimal wear to cover and binding. A few pages may have small creases and minimal underlining. Book selection as BIG as Texas. read more
"Have you ever read something that made your face frown and made you think-what?! Well the poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes did that exact thing to me. As I read this poem our face turned upside down. The struggle of the poem is the best. It was that the mother's life was really rough, she didn't want her son to go through what she went through.The Imagery, Man ! the imagery used in the poem is the common imagery that is used in everyday life. However, not thought about in that same way. This poem is realistic. We can picture most of the things that are in "Mother to Son". These are some reasons why you can like this poem but there are many more !
The imagery in the poem is really outstanding , but you may not catch it as soon you read it. That's how good it is! The usage of it is normal but you have to think outside of the box to get it. Whenever you see imagery you see everyone use commonly. Also this way is common but used in a different way. Most would understand. "Don't you set down on the steps", as the mother says. You may think she is talking about the stairs we walk on but she explains the trials and tribulations of being alive. Which means the ways of living life as in happiness and or the struggle. In this specific poem, you can find alot of struggle.
As we mentioned in the paragraph above, struggle can be found alot in this poem. She had alot of problems she has been put through , but is trying to let her son know that life isn't always happy and filled with joy. There are something that you are going to be scared to do and somethings that you are going to be able to get through. "Where there ain't no light. So, boy, don't you turn back." This phrase tells you that there can be nothing but you still do not give up on it ! Anything can be hard or can make you feel like you are strugling but you can not back down from it. Perserverance is the key word here! So you say you can acutally picture what she is saying ?!
Yes you can picture the way the mother explains herself . She makes it seem like you are in the poem, which makes it realistic. You can see that the mother is been put through alot and you can say that it realisitic because you can put yourself into her shoes. Once you can relate to something it has become realistic. This poem can relate to alot of people so you can call it realistic
So what some mother's can't relate to Mother to Son the thing about this poem someone can learn from it ! Being a mother and growing up, having a hard life of course you wouldn't want your child having to deal with the something. She wants her child to have a life that she couldn't enjoy. Most people still this day can relate to how realistic Mother to Son is, anybody's mom can sit their child down and tell their child how rough their life was, just imagine all the hard times your mom went through. Maybe not having any lunch money or having to wait months and months to get a new pair of sneakers, because their wasn't enough money in the house hold."
"Harlem Renaissance! Jazz! Blues! Snap fingers and say yeah!
It's not that this collection is bad, just sprawling. There is no reason why anyone needs to read ALL of these poems. A great number of them are not poetic, i.e. you won't walk away from them thinking "What an interesting allusion! I'm pleasantly miffed! What was that about? I'll have to do some thinking . . ." Instead, you'll go: "Oh, another alternating rhyme scheme. Neat. Oh. It's only eight lines long. How jazzy. I guess."
Repeat after me: I will not be swayed by college professors. I will not take their word for it. I will think for myself and accept that all art is perishable. I will access whether this has any artistic-and not social or political-value first, and then proceed from there. It is alright to criticize the classics. It is alright to break with tradition and decide not to teach this author in the same manner as professors before me.
Also, it is obvious that people have been pigeonholing Mr. Hughes into this Harlem Renaissance scene because it is convenient. What about the nuances of his upbringings? Why is his childhood in the south (where he would have been first exposed to the blues form) ultimately ignored?
Anyhow, I'm not arguing that he shouldn't be in the canon. He has some great poems. Just keep in mind that even the Immortal Bard doesn't have 620 pages of amazing poetry. I don't see why Langston Hughes would either."
"Me---who? Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love. I like to work, read, learn, and understand life. I like a pipe for a Christmas present, or records---Bessie, bop, or Bach.
"Theme for English B" was the epitome of everything romantic and young and idealistic when I was in high school and college, but now it comes across as sort of pat. Harrumph, I guess I've become a grown-up. Hughes was oft accused of writing "too low" but that was key to his brilliance--his simple prose hid grander themes, and his writing was accessible to the masses."
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