comparison essay on two poets

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Comparison essay on two poets
Langston Hughes and David Foster Wallace are American novelists and have used various styles like continuous prose and non-fiction in their works. They are victims of circumstances that make them feel vulnerable, lonely and yearning to be free from the system they are exposed to.
Hughes writing is written in a long prose format with several poems in it which make his style unique. He goes out of the conventional writing to write a poem in the form of an essay that expresses the hard times faced by people of his race (Hughes, 1947). He uses music and rhythm to poetry the culture of blacks during his time. Similarly, Wallace has written his shipping out essay in a long prose. He moves out the conventional writing where he is supposed to have breaks and uses his style to ensure the expression of contemporary like ….we’d laugh out of town…speech fits his writing to express an ideology in his era to show a transcendent fiction (Wallace, 1997). Hughes uses the non-fiction style to show suffering by blacks and how he yearns for freedom from all the torment from the white government. He says how he is trying to fly off the mad, but Jim Crow holds him back (Hughes, 1947). The same non-fiction style is applied by Wallace and at the end as he yearns for his freedom from the cruise. He has a vision of himself off the cruise ship as it floats away signifying his freedom yet to be attained.

Langston talks about his experience with blacks being used as slaves in cane plantations in Cuba.

In line six of the poem Cane, he points to a white man on the field to implying watching over as the black is working (Hughes, 1947). Wallace in his side he talks about a boy jumping off the mega ship into the water and without investigation it’s ruled out as suicide (Wallace, 1997). He explains portrays the Caribbean as expensive rather than beautiful and that the choice of boarding the ship is equivalent to a suicidal act.
In conclusion, the two authors have tried to explain social events that need correction. The two authors have used non-fictional styles to explain real time events that decay the society’s moral. But Hughes was more into advocating for rights of the blacks while Wallace seem to be concerned with socio-economic issues that show how people are greedy and should learn to be satisfied.
Work cited
Hughes, Lanston. “My Adventures as a Social Poet.” – Disciplina. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), 1947. Web. 8 Sept. 2015. <http://www.lem.seed.pr.gov.br/modules/conteudo/conteudo.php?conteudo=170>.
Wallace, David. “Shipping out.” Little, Brown and Co., 1997. Web. 15 Sept. 2015.