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Intro To Cullen V Hughes Analysis
Intro To Cullen V Hughes Analysis
Intro To Cullen V Hughes Analysis
conventional white American and British poets as well (Ferguson,32). He also seemed to favor
emotional and personal artistic themes rather than direct, provocative themes that poets like
Hughes would have chosen to articulate the prevailing views of the New Negro. His influences
were drawn predominantly from Western poets and he did not use influences of the black home
space, black music and black culture in his writing style. Overall, Cullens aesthetics developed
from the conventions of classical Western literature with enigmatic allusions and structured
rhyme schemes. In comparison to Hughes, the differences in writing style are very apparent just
through visual and auditory evaluation.