The poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughs reflects many of the writers own personal beliefs. The speaker in the poem is reflecting the misfortunes of Negro society in a time period in which Hughs and generations before him lived. The poem is a great example of what type of expressionist writings came out of the Harlem Renaissance from the black community. The poem has a dialect, simple enough that all people could understand it, a tone in which the writer seems to be angry, and the poem reflects some aspects of every day life in Negro ....