Right after World War I, the majority of African Americans moved from the South to the North of the United States. New economic and artistic opportunities led them to create and identify with their own culture and heritage. This movement is well known as the Harlem Renaissance. With this came a new lifestyle, new styles of music and many talented writers. This article discusses two poems from this period: Heritage, written by Countee Cullen, and The Weary Blues, written by Langston Hughes. There is a lot of mystery about Countee Cullen's early life. He was adopted at fifteen and loved his adoptive mother's songs. According to Nelson (2000), this could be the reason why Cullen perceived poetry as a song-muse. His role in the Harlem Renaissance was very important. He drew inspiration from the lives of black Americans and wrote in a conventional writing style. Throughout his work, he remained in a feeling of double consciousness, “the very term African-American” (Sayre, 2012). Langston Hughes was one of the most productive writers of the Harlem Renaissance and one of the few artists of the movement to achieve fame and recognition (Kelley, Bloom, 2010). He enriched Harlem Renaissance circles not only with his poetry but also with his essays, short stories, novels, plays, autobiographies, and blues and jazz lyrics. His poems have a simple structure. Compared to Cullen, whose poems were more conventional, Hughes wrote his poems in a more intellectual manner. Many of them incorporate elements of songs and sermons. The poem Heritage is part of the Cullens' first collection of poems called Color. It describes the image of Africa in Cullen's imagination, the division of self between a pagan and a Christian (often referred to...... middle of paper ......nt was the main consequence of slavery. In Inheritance, it can be seen in lines sixty-four to sixty-seven In The Weary Blues, these scenes are evoked by the words like poor, sad, melancholy, no one, my problems, can. be satisfied, I'm not happy either, or I wish I had died Kelley, JB and Bloom, H. (2010) How to Write About Langston Hughes Chelsea House Publishers Nelson, ES (2000) African Authors. Americans, 1745-1945: Bio-. Sourcebook and Bibliographic Review. Greenwood Publishing Group, P. (2000). Review, 34(4), 661. Sayre, H.M. (2012). The Humanities: Culture, Continuity, and Change, Volume 2. (2nd ed.) (2011 Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education).)..