"The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by McKay in which many different poetic apects emerge as we read the poem. ... People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... In this poem, the tone is cheerful, but at times there is some discontent. In the beginning of the poem, there is a description of happiness and laughter. ... This structure of the poem also includes the situation, speaker, and setting. ...

• Word Count: 1662
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

"The Harlem Dancer" is a poem written by McKay in which many different poetic apects emerge as we read the poem. ... People might think that this poem is a story of a dancer from Harlem. ... In this poem, the tone is cheerful, but at times there is some discontent. In the beginning of the poem, there is a description of happiness and laughter. ... This structure of the poem also includes the situation, speaker, and setting. ...

• Word Count: 1634
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

For Hughes, this was the perfect opportunity to establish his poems. ... Like the earlier poem "Harlem Night Club-, it is a fast-paced, forceful piece. ... The poem is written in rhyme and has a flowing, nursery rhyme feel. ... This poem shows the growing bitterness in Hughes' life. ... Before his death in May of 1967, he wrote his final poem "Flotsam."" ...

• Word Count: 1313
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The poem is composed of three couplets. ... (Selected Poems 125) In this poem Hughes is truthfully voicing his thoughts and opinions with a humorous twist. ... The poem "pleads for fulfillment of the Dream that never was. ... In this poem, Hughes dream is becoming a more of a reality. ... Suddenly half way through the poem it takes on a new twist. ...

• Word Count: 1522
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Seamus Heaney's poem, Mid-Term Break, is a great example of how society's expectations can impact identity because the poem is about a young man who is away at school to obtain an education and establish his identity when he is called back home to deal with the death of his younger brother. From reading the poem, it's clear that the narrator left his family to pursue an identity of his own, and the first line of the poem suggests that he isn't happy about having to return home out of obligation as the oldest child. ... Another poem that touches on identity and social expect...

• Word Count: 2322
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He speaks or slavery, rebellion, misery, and freedom in his poems and short stories. ... He got a job, which bored him enough, that he began to write poems and short stories. ... In the poem "Sympathy" he cries out against the feeling of slavery. ... The poem "Sympathy" is a poem of Negro man telling how he feels when he is freed from slavery. ... Dunbar wrote some of his poems from life experiences and occurrences (Redding 131). ...

• Word Count: 1623
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Through his poems, Langston Hughes describes his community, which was still in the south of the United States. ... Through his poem L. ... (Hughes 588) These are lines from Langston Hughes' popular poem, Theme for English B, published in 1951. In that poem Hughes narrates in a simple manner the life of blacks in Harlem, in all his poem he uses the rhythmic rhyming as an accessible language. ... All this poem is made with many symbols, and in an important part of the poem he avoid totally all the adjective and just focused on the verbs: " I like to work, read, learn, and understand lif...

• Word Count: 1971
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Some of her works such as poems are even considered to be autobiographical kind of poems. ... In some poems, Angelou uses the four line stanzas with rhyme and rhythm and in others he does not. Angelou's poem titled I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings is a significant poem that presents her writing style through the unique stylistic details that reflect on themes and action. In the poem, Angelou utilizes scenes and conversations, which outline the different emotions of her characters. ... From the review of Angelou's works including the poem I know Why the Caged Bird Sings, it is clear t...

• Word Count: 1524
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Mother To Son- is a poem and "Thank You M' am- is a short story. ... The poem The Negro Speaks of Rivers displays his uses the imagery of rivers to demonstrate the connection with the earth and nature in his poem. In this poem, the speaker in the poem has known rivers; he speaks of rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. ... The language in this poem paints a morbid picture of a racist south. In this poem, nature is harsh, unfair, and cruel. ...

• Word Count: 1518
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In Langston Hughes, "Theme For English B," I intend to argue that the character throughout the poem is trying to find identity and purpose, and this is done through symbolism, imagery, and diction. The poem begins with the instructor giving the class the assignment of writing a paper and asking that what they write comes from within them and only then it'll be truethis is immediately followed by the characters line, "I wonder if its that simple?...

• Word Count: 1440
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Many of his poems are children's poems. ... This is a positive poem. ... In his poem "I, Too sing America" one of his most powerful and best-known poems, Hughes talked about the racial issues in America. ... (Rummel 51) This poem gives hope to the black community in general. ... The poem also depends on a relationship between brightness and darkness. ...

• Word Count: 1984
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In "Cavalry Crossing a Ford" Walt Whitman draws on many life experiences that provide both realism and conviction to the poem. The poem indicates that a group of Northern soldiers are crossing a stream after a victorious battle during the Civil War. ... The role that Whitman's background has in this poem is a major one. Had Whitman supported Confederate troops his poem would likely have read much differently. It would have been one of sadness and anger instead of a poem of joy. ...

• Word Count: 1893
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography

"Mother to Son" is one of his earliest poems; he is only 21 when he creates this beautiful tribute to his ancestry. ... The poem places the reader in the position of the son, listening to his mother draw lessons from her life that can be applied to his own. ... The title of the poem sets the stage of a mother getting ready to give her son advice. ... This is the principal statement of the poem and introduces the metaphor. ... The poem also gives the reader the history and optimism of Black American culture as a display of faith, optimism and undying spirit. ...

• Word Count: 1328
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Langston Hughes's poem "I, Too" and Claude McKay's poem "America" depict a more realistic view of American society. ... McKay's poem "America" depicts a feeling of loss. ... In the last lines of the poem the speaker describes his feelings that America's promise has been lost in its impurity. ... The second part of the poem depicts the speaker's determination to be equal to America's white people. ... These poems illustrate the idea that America is not necessarily a "land of opportunity" for all people. ...

• Word Count: 1569
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In this essay I will discuss of two poems written by Claude McKay. The first poem we will analyze is To The White Fiends, it shows themes of hatred and violence inflicted by White Americans and the poem also shows a sense of pride and value of one's self being African American by not giving into hatred. ... This poem was written as a sonnet, in an abbaabbacdcdcd rhyme scheme with an anapestic pentameter. ... This poem was written as a sonnet, in an ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme with a dactylic trimeter. In Bondage was also written in 1922, during the grim setting "Red Summer" lik...

• Word Count: 1452
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In the poem the landlord says that the man needs to pay him ten dollars. ... The poem is attempting to demonstrate the degree of social unfairness in America. ... This is a dissent poem. ... The poem intensely raises a powerful voice against racism in America. ... By utilizing the basic informal dialect of the Blacks, the poem passes on the profound emotions of the Negroes. ...

• Word Count: 1762
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The subject matter in the majority of her poems reflected her religious views and her new life in revolutionary New England. ... For example, in Wheatley's Poems she concludes with an invocation to Terence. ... Wheatley parallels her own being with the structure of the poem. Just as the poet is comprised of two racial identities, this poem is formed by two quatrains each dedicated to voicing those views. ... During the time that this poem was written, America was working to distinguish itself from England. ...

• Word Count: 2218
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

He wrote this poem while riding on a train to visit his father. ... In this poem, Hughes realizes that he is ready to travel and see the world, the way a river would. ... Upon returning to America he wrote a very popular poem called, "I, too, sing America." ... Hughes finishes off the poem by repeating the title, which is "I, too, sing America." ... He went on to write many more poems, short stories, and plays. ...

• Word Count: 1483
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Langston Hughes Langston Hughes opened his first volume of poems with the expression of his- and every Negro's- "soul world": "I am a Negro: /Black as the night is black, /Black like the depths of my Africa" (Emanuel 17). ... Six months after his first poem appeared in the juvenile organ of the NAACP, he placed "The Negro Speaks of Rivers" in its official journal the Crisis. ... The few poems that he published at this time were frequently a reflection of his travels. ... The best poems in The Weary Blues group themselves around the themes of pride and protest. ... The poems of pride, s...

• Word Count: 1325
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

With one ear tuned in to the voices he heard on the street and the other to the music he heard in nightclubs, Hughes created poems that made him one of the stars of the Harlem Renaissance. ... His time in Africa was inspirational, resulting in several poems condemning white colonialism or celebrating black unity and beauty. ... Publishing his jazz-tinged poems in the NAACP's Crisis and the Urban League's Opportunity, Hughes became a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. ... He produced few new poems at this time. ... Afterward, a group of Hughes's closest friends recited o...

• Word Count: 1295
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A leader of the Black arts movement, Baraka's numerous plays, poems, and essays inspired a generation of black folks to stand up because it was nation time (black Nation). ... It was said that Hettie did the pasting and collating on the kitchen table and LeRoi wrote or found the poem that where to be in the magazine. ... These works where "Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note", a collection poems and "The Baptism" and "The Toilet", two early plays. ... Much of the tension of in the poems of "Preface" stems from Amiri's struggle to replace his cool withdrawal with a sense of c...

• Word Count: 2297
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: High School

Meanwhile he sent more poems to The Crisis. ... He met poet Vachel Lindsay, who liked his poems and promoted them. In 1926 Hughes published his first book of poems, The Weary Blues, about Harlem life. ... Black people loved reading his works and hearing him read his poems at public presentations all over the country. ...

• Word Count: 1300
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In order to better analyze this poem, it is necessary to know a little about the author because his work is pretty much close to his life and own experiences. ... As this poem reflects an analysis of internal and external observations of what is ruled and what really happens we can observe that it reflects on the structure of the poem. ... The main message of the poem is that even though Black Americans and the American majority claim to be separate (but equal) entities, each is actually a product of the other. ... This effect in the first five lines of the poem set the tone of what appears t...

• Word Count: 1896
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Yet, with his unique gift for writing, Hughes turned the pain engendered by his parents' conflict into the noted poem, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," published by Crisis in 1921. ... Through these experiences, a new rhythm emerged in his writing, and a series of poems such as The Weary Blues were penned. ... He said, "I tried to write poems like the songs they sang on Seventh Street...... Hughes's poems, short plays, essays, and short stories began appearing in the NAACP publication Crisis Magazine and in Opportunity Magazine and other publications. ... He wrote sixteen books of poem...

• Word Count: 2112
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In order to better analyze this poem, it is necessary to know a little about the author because his work is pretty much close to his life and own experiences. ... As this poem reflects an analysis of internal and external observations of what is ruled and what really happens we can observe that it reflects on the structure of the poem. ... The main message of the poem is that even though Black Americans and the American majority claim to be separate (but equal) entities, each is actually a product of the other. ... This effect in the first five lines of the poem set the tone of what appears t...

• Word Count: 1930
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School