BLACK AMERICAN LIFE REFLECTED IN LANGSTON HUGHES’ POEMS: A SOCIOLOGICAL APPROACH
The major problem of this study is to reveal how does black American life in existence of inequality and slavery reflected in Langston Hughes’ poems on sociological approach. The objectives of the study are to analyze the poems based on its structural elements and to analyze the poems based on...
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2007
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| Online Access: | https://eprints.ums.ac.id/10522/ |
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| Summary: | The major problem of this study is to reveal how does black American
life in existence of inequality and slavery reflected in Langston Hughes’ poems on
sociological approach. The objectives of the study are to analyze the poems based
on its structural elements and to analyze the poems based on sociological
approach.
The writer conducts the researcher by using a qualitative method. It
means a library research, while data source is the literary, the data are divided into
two categories, primary and secondary data. The primary data is the text of
Langston Hughes’ poems entitled LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN, WILL
V-DAY BE ME DAY TOO?, FREEDOM PLOW, FREEDOM TRAIN and
DEMOCRACY taken from selected poems of Langston Hughes. The secondary
data sources are other source such as essay, comments, historical information,
biography of internet and other relevant information. The data collection is
literary research. The technique of the data analysis is descriptive.
The outcome of the study shows: firstly, there is a close relationship
between a work of literature and sociological phenomena. Secondly, in these
poems, Langston Hughes wants to say that social relation between the white and
the black in America society.
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