During the course of Black American Writers in Paris, we read the literature of numerous authors who were influential not only for the Harlem Renaissance but also for generations futures. The fact that the Harlem Renaissance served as an awakening in the black community that allowed blacks to celebrate their blackness and personal individuality. There were many rising stars during the Harlem Renaissance, from Countee Cullen to Josephine Baker to WEB DuBois and so on. Langston Hughes was not afraid to express his darkness through his writing. A reader can see in Hughes' essay, The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain, Hughes expresses his dismay about how if a poet does not want to identify as a Negro poet, then Gwendolyn Bennet and Jesse Redmon Fauset were both influential in the Harlem Renaissance movement. . Bennet's poetry reflects the lives of black people who are in touch with their roots. While Fauset's poetry shows what life is like as a contender in the Harlem Renaissance. As for Fauset's poetry, it seems like he has other influences that shape the way his writing is. The poem presented for Bennett shows how his blackness influenced his writing. Lines like “Shaken by limbs still and brown, or heads thrown back with irreverent glee. My song has the commanding sweetness of moist, dark lips” shows how the characters within the poem are black and that the relatable audience is black. The form used in his poetry was primarily narrative. He used alliteration and verse to emphasize certain parts. “Memory will put its hands on your chest and you will understand my hatred” This line shows the metaphorical use that Bennett uses in the poem Hate to emphasize how strong the hatred he has for anyone. Imagery is another tool he uses in his poetry. Fauset uses imagery in his poem to allow the reader to imagine what exactly he is describing. There was a use of metaphor in his poem La Vie C'est La Vie ("And there is a man whose lightest word can set my icy blood on fire." The tone in his poem seems to be optimistic. Fauset also uses the rhyme in the ending of his stanzas as a tool within his poetry Both poets have similarities with the use of tone and the use of metaphor, but they are different when it comes to the use of form and