The Big Sea: Basics
This is the genre of The Big Sea by Langston Hughes
What is an autobiography?
Hughes reflects on the struggles of African Americans, particularly against this social issue.
What is racial discrimination?
Hughes was raised by this relative after his parents separated.
Who is his grandmother?
This literary journal published Hughes’s first poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” launching his literary career.
What is the Crisis?
This term refers to the African American cultural movement that Langston Hughes was a major part of and describes in The Big Sea.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Hughes often discusses this type of music, which influenced his poetry’s rhythm and themes.
What is jazz?
This city, where Hughes lived with his mother in his youth, influenced his early love for reading and poetry.
What is Cleveland?
In The Big Sea, Hughes recounts his time working on a ship and traveling to this continent.
What is Africa?
This city, known for its vibrant Black culture in the 1920s, was central to Hughes's life and career as described in The Big Sea.
What is Harlem?
One theme in The Big Sea is Hughes’s criticism of racial segregation, especially in this part of the United States.
What is the South?
Langston Hughes attended this university, which he later dropped out of
What is Columbia?
Langston Hughes spent time in the capital of this city to visit his father, as mentioned in The Big Sea.
What is Mexico?
Hughes’s first published poem, mentioned in The Big Sea, was about this major river.
What is the Mississippi River?
In The Big Sea, Hughes emphasizes the importance of this, defined by pride in one’s cultural and racial identity.
What is self-identity?
In what year was Langston Hughes born?
What is 1902?
Hughes employs this literary tool in addressing stereotypes of different racial groups.
What is humour?