The poems of Langston Hughes, central to the Harlem Renaissance, were sometimes dismissed by contemporary critics as too plain — too direct, too rooted in the rhythms of everyday Black speech. Later scholarship has reversed that judgment, treating Hughes's plainness as a deliberate aesthetic. The directness, scholars argue, was the achievement, not the absence of one.
Which choice best states the main idea of the text?
- Acheck_circle
Hughes's plainness, once seen as a flaw, is now understood as an intentional aesthetic accomplishment.
- B
The Harlem Renaissance produced many poets.
- C
Critics have always agreed about Hughes's value.
- D
Hughes's poems were difficult to understand.
Explanation
The passage's central claim is the reversal in critical judgment — A. B is incidental; C and D contradict the text.