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Like Walt Whitman, Hughes was celebrated for being a "poet of the people." His poems are about the daily struggles of everyday men and women. He creates three-dimensional characters, depicting their dignity as well as their flaws. He does not write about ostentatious politicians or war heroes or gods; rather, his characters' heroism comes out in quiet, subtle ways. Specifically, Hughes wrote about African American men and women, who at the time did not commonly appear in mainstream American poetry. Most famous writers and poets (of both races) ignored the black population of America beyond an occasional paper-thin caricature. Langston Hughes, though, wrote his poetry for and about his community, and therefore, remains an influential and groundbreaking voice in American literature.
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