Generate a thesis and a critical essay that lays out Hughes’s multi-dimensional vision or representation of Harlem.

TOPIC: Harlem plays a key role in The Weary Blues and Hughes characterizes it in highly distinctive ways. Generate a thesis and a critical essay that lays out Hughes’s multi-dimensional vision or representation of Harlem. To begin with, what kinds of locales does he focus on in The Weary Blues? What do they say about how he sees Harlem? In what ways is Harlem for him a place of freedom? In what ways is it a place of unfreedom? What social realities–such as race, class and culture–define Harlem for Hughes? Crucially, what imagery (patterns of images) does he use to define Harlem? Select 6 poems and use them as support. Note: Do not produce an essay with six different approaches. Instead synthesize Hughes’s views into a single, multi-dimensional interpretive claim that gets at the complexity of Hughes’s representation of Harlem. Please use the poems: The Weary Blues, Cross, Harlem night club, Dream variations, Our Land, and Lament for Dark Peoples

thesis and an overall interpretation. That is, the essay questions are constructed as a kind of “machine” to help you produce a good thesis and a good essay. Each question must be answered in detail in the thesis and developed in the main body. In other words, any adequate discussion must take these questions into account (you may want to bring in other insights, but these should form the foundation of your essay).

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