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10 Cards in this Set
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Buffalo Bill's |
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The Great Figure |
The firetruck is very loud and bright with a golden five on the side. It contrasts the dark and dullish city scene that serves as the backround to the image in our heads |
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This is just to say |
The poem writes about how he is sorry* for eating another person's plums despite knowing that they probably intended to eat them for breakfest. *The person apologizing doesn't appear to truly regret their decision but appears to be in a position where apologizing is the social norm for doing something like this. The two people may be in a relationship such as a marriage. |
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The Red Wheelbarrow |
This poem talks about the important of a wheelbarrow on what appears to be a farm and how much of the work done relies on it. However, the poem also uses breaks in lines in a way that the reader can fully visualize the wheelbarrow itself and pay full attention to each and every detail in the poem so as to get a full image in their head. |
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In a Station of the Metro |
This poem writes about "apparations" which probably means that they are seeing faces flah by them in an instant and vanish just as fast. He also seems to compare each face to a flower on a tree which may refer to the fact that each face is simply a person that makes up a large crowd |
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The River Merchant's Wife |
This poem involves a merchant who has been gone for five months. His wife has become lonely and wishes to see him. She writes a letter recalling events in their marriage such as when she was married at fouteen. The wife deeply wishes to see her husband and is willing to go several hundred miles up a river to see him. |
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Harlem |
This poem addresses one of his most common themes - the limitations of the American Dream for African Americans. The speaker wonders what happens to a deferred dream. He wonders if it dries up like a raisin in the sun, or if it oozes like a wound and then runs. It might smell like rotten meat or develop a sugary crust. It might just sag like a “heavy load,” or it might explode. |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers |
In this poem, the speaker links himself to his ancestors, firmly placing them in important historical, religious, and cultural sites all over the world. The speaker begins by claiming a connection to the world's ancient rivers that predated human beings, and that has made his soul grow "deep like the rivers." The speaker mentions four great rivers, starting with the Euphrates, which historians and archaeologists often label as the birthplace of human civilization. Then, he mentions the strong and mighty Congo, along which many great African kingdoms have flourished. The speaker then cites the long, winding Nile and the great Egyptian pyramids. He witnessed the creation of these structures, which are amongst man's greatest feats of architecture. Finally, he writes about the muddy and golden Mississippi, which he links American slavery and Abraham Lincoln. |
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My Sweet Old Etcetera |
This poem involves a soldier as the main "speaker" and they keep using etcetera. They use it in a sense that what they're saying is a sort of sameold or not worth saying and sort of do it in a manner similar to saying blablabla to get on with what you're saying as if the rest isn't important. They do this with things that appear to be considered actually important at the time like his family's opinion on the war or their views on their son fighting. It also shows how the soldier himself considers the war to be less of a huge event than his family that isn't involved and how his family hold views about war that aren't true. His father even states how he wished that he (the father) could die bravely in battle and what an honor it would be. It is clear he doesn't know the true horrors that were taking place during the war (World War I) |
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Visitors to the Black Belt |
Langston Hughes expresses his concerns about how Whites are not truly seeking to understand Blacks, and how White culture is appropriating and using the products of the Harlem Renaissance for their own gain. In "Visitors to the Black Belt," Hughes explains how people outside of Harlem - mostly Whites - look in for brief moments and think they understand how life there is, when really they have no idea. They have a false sense of understanding - a superficial view that they somehow think captures the essence of what Harlem truly is, when it really just scratches the surface. |
