Poem Comparison
There are many African American writers that are well known today, that have made there works strictly around the focus point of black life. The three works chosen to compare and demonstrate the similarities and connections between three different writers are, August Wilson's play "Lessons Carved From History", Amiri Baraka's poem "Ka'Ba", and Langston Hughes' poem "Children's Rhyme". Each of them have a similar connection which is they all revolve around the issue of black life, and each writer is trying to demonstrate and make a point that black people did not have it easy, and were not given all the rights they deserved and were entitled to. August Wilson, who was born Frederick August Kittel in 1945,to father Frederick August, and Daisy (Wilson) Kittel.Wilson's father who was German-American was a baker, and his mother who was African-American, was a cleaning woman. Wilson dropped out of school at the age of 15, and received his education from libraries, and street corner readings. His carrers consisted of, a Writer, Cofounder (with Rob Penny), scriptwriter, and director of Black Horizons on the Hill (theatre company) Pittsburgh, PA, 1968-78; scriptwriter for Science Museum of Minnesota,
Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. As the son of James Nathaniel Hughes, who was a businessman, a lawyer, and a rancher, and Carrie Mercer (Langston) Hughes, who was a teacher, Hughes had many good educational opportunities in which he attended Columbia University, and Lincoln University. Hughes was a part of many things such as Authors Gulid, Dramatists Guild, American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers, PEN, National Institute of Arts and Letters, and Omega Psi Phi. Hughes was greatly rewarded for his work earning several first prizes in various poetrt contests, Palms magazine Intercollegiate poetry award, Guggenheim fellowship for creative work, Anisfeld-Wolfe Award for best book on racial relations, and the Spingarn Medal, Natuonal Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Wilson's play "Lessons Carved From History", like Hughes's poem "Children's Rhyme", and Baraka's poem "Ka'Ba", demonstrates a sense of black pride. Also each writer has a way to show through words how black life used to be and how hard it was to survive through the struggles that were brought upon them. Amiri Baraka, born as Everett Leroi Jones,was born on October 7, 1934, in Newark, New Jersey to postal worker, and elevator operator, Coyette Leroy, and mother Anna Lois Jones. Baraka led a very busy life, he attended Rutgers University from 1951- 1952 he then received his B.A.
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