26 I made ragtime
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In this line of analysis “I carried my sorrow songs” as race of behavior. This poem resonated with black people or African American because the events
are the real events of suffered, and enlightens how far African-Americans as a people have come. The main point of this poem describes about African American
being discriminated in so many places and by so many people, how horribly he and others have been treated.
3. Analysis Moment
The second of Tine’s theory is time moment. Time is a social condition at the one period. The moment is the accumulated experiences of the person,
which Taine often expressed as momentum. Every momentum has idea dominant which can hold out in the century. The story and event in the poem Negro
happened in 1926s. Racial discrimination acted by the white race to the black race always
continues daily in America. Discrimination was seen in different parts of America in the twentieth century. In the early 1926s, Hughes wrote his poem entitled
Negro. He was a Harlem Renaissance poet which means he lived during the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. This was a time when racial pride was
represented in the idea that through things like art, music, and literature, blacks could challenge racism. .This is highly reflected in all of his poems, especially this
one, entitled Negro. This poem reflects the history of African Americans and the trials and tribulations they endured in the past and continue to endure in the
27 present. Hughes describes himself and his race as having been a slave, worker,
singer and victim who suffered discrimination in several different ways from several different people in several different places.
4. Analysis Environment
The third of Taine’s theory is environment milieu. Environment milieu is the particular circumstances that distorted or developed the dispositions of a
particular person. According to Taine, literature is not just personal imagination in characteristic personal, but representing its period record. The environment in the
Poetry of Langston Hughes is Harlem of New York’s city. Harlem is a community in New York City, in northern Manhattan Island. Its population is mostly Negro.
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New York’s Harlem was a center for musical and artistic talent during that era. So those, Harlem than became a fashionable residential community.
In the beginning, 1910 -1920 Harlem made one of largest black communities in the United States. At the same time, Harlem became an animating
force for other black America communities. Many Black writers have been Harlem residents.
One of central figure of Harlem Renaissance is Langston Hughes. He was an African American poet who was one of the first black voices to be heard in
America. I’ve been a victim:
The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo. They lynch me still in Mississippi
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28 This poem refers to environment in Harlem because this poem written as a
voice of they souls as black people in Harlem and presented his environment.
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