2. He has written novels, plays, essays, history, biographies and other works of various styles, translated Spanish and French poems into English, and even edited anthologies of other black writers, but he is mainly known for his poems, and is known as "Poet Laureate of the Black Nation" and "Poet Laureate of Harlem".
3. Hughes' poems draw nutrition from black music and folk songs and integrate the rhythm of jazz into free verse, so his poems are as open, stretched and enthusiastic as jazz. His poetry is fresh in style and profound in artistic conception, with shocking and touching power, which has a great influence on the development of modern American black literature and African black poetry.