I'm looking for the full text of a poem by Hughes in which he
describes his first entrance into Harlem from the subway exit, feeling
vitality and hope throbbing in the air.

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 10 Sep 2003 18:35 PDT

After doing quite a bit of research on this question, I have come to
the conclusion that Langston Hughes probably did NOT write a poem like
that.

I believe that the report of Hughes "feeling vitality and hope
throbbing in the air" is the result of another author paraphrasing
some prose (not poetry) that Hughes did write.

If you're interested, I can provide you with citations for Hughes'
original prose from which this reference derives.

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Clarification of Question by yoga99x-ga on 11 Sep 2003 04:36 PDT

Thanks for your effort.

i'm referring to this: "Langston Hughes, in describing his first
entrance into Harlem from the 135th Street subway exit, said that he
felt vitality and hope throbbing in the air."

http://www.rit.edu/~nrcgsh/bx/bx09b.html

I also saw a partial translation to my language of this poem/prose
piece by Hughes so i know he wrote it but i don't know the title.

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Request for Question Clarification by juggler-ga on 11 Sep 2003 19:47 PDT

Yes, I know what you're referring to.  

However, I believe that Norman Coombs was merely paraphrasing some
prose (again, it's NOT a poem) that Hughes wrote. I looked at the
print edition of Coombs' "The Black Experience" and there is no
citation for that passage.

Hughes did write about arriving in Harlem and exiting the subway
station at 135th Street.  If you're interested, I can tell you where
Hughes wrote about that.  However, Hughes did NOT use the words
"vitality" or "hope throbbing." That seems to simply be Coombs'
interpretation of what Hughes wrote.