It’s Langston Hughes’ Birthday: He was the Brightest Light of the Harlem Renaissance

By Nicholas Stix

Google has devoted today’s “Google Doodle” to the life and works of Langston Hughes, the famous black American poet, essayist, editor and playwright.

Google’s presentation combined the following Hughes poem with graphics, sound effects, and music. Let’s look at the poem straight, no chaser, first.
 

I Dream a World
By Langston Hughes

I dream a world where man
No other man will scorn,
Where love will bless the earth
And peace its paths adorn
I dream a world where all
Will know sweet freedom's way,
Where greed no longer saps the soul
Nor avarice blights our day.
A world I dream where black or white,
Whatever race you be,
Will share the bounties of the earth
And every man is free,
Where wretchedness will hang its head
And joy, like a pearl,
Attends the needs of all mankind-
Of such I dream, my world!

- See more at: http://allpoetry.com/I-Dream-A-World#sthash.Nu0uwgDR.dpuf
 

That’s not poetry, it’s a bunch of rhyming platitudes.

No wonder, Google’s operatives felt the need to distract people from the words.
 

Langston Hughes' 113th Birthday Google Doodle

Published on Jan 31, 2015 by googledoodles.

Animated Google Doodle celebrating Langston Hughes, and his poem "I Dream A World". [sic]