“Future commentators on American poetry and politics will not be able to ignore the…authentic voice of the region,” argues Barry Ahearn, author of the article Poetry: 1900 to the 1940s, which discusses the importance of the author writing about his region of choice in his own poetry and how this influences his own writing (Ahearn 373). Ahearn talks about writers such as Sterling A. Brown, Langston Hughes, HD (Hilda Doolittle), Robert Frost, Robinson Jeffers, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Lorine Niedecker, George Oppen, John Crowe Ransom, Charles Rezikoff, Muriel Rukeyser, Gertrude Stine, Wallace Stevens, Sara Teasdale, William Carlos Williams and Louis Zukofksy. The purpose of citing so many, Ahearn argues, is to gather an overview of works between 1900 and the 1940s. The discussion of these writers creates a wide range of modernist authors who influenced each other and the people who read their works; the author states that the writer's authenticity is what creates a more accurate literary work, and these authors' life experiences are the material that adds to their writing as a whole. Robert Frost and Langston Hughes are regional writers who focus on specific places but have similar qualities in their poems that transcend place. Two poems that exemplify these qualities will be discussed: “Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening” with “Birches” by Robert Frost and “Theme for English B” with “Visitors to the Black Belt” by Langston Hughes. Modernist poetry involves a movement away from the individual's self and emotions. Typically, the focus of modernist poetry revolves around rational notions of the self, unlike the Romantic period, which focused on the poet. Modernist poets ex...... middle of paper ......olarship 2004.1 (2006): 385. EDS Foundation Index. Network. April 18, 2012. Frost, Robert. “Birch trees.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 7th. vol. D.Ed. Leffelholz, Mary. New York: Norton & Company, 2007. 1400-1402. Print.Frost, Robert. “Stop in Woods on a snowy evening.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 7th. vol. D.Ed. Leffelholz, Mary. New York: Norton & Company, 2007. 1403. Print.Hughes, Langston. "Theme for English B." The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 7th. vol. D.Ed. Leffelholz, Mary. New York: Norton & Company, 2007. 2036. Print.Hughes, Langston. “Visitors from the Black Belt.” The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 7th Vol. D.Ed. Leffelholz, Mary. New York: Norton & Company, 2007. 2032. Print.Leffelholz, Mary. The Norton Anthology of American Literature. 7th. D. New York: Norton & Company, 2007. 1177-1191. Press.