In the 1900s, the African American community “never” fitted. There was a lot of racism and one of the ways the African American people spoke their anger, sorrow, and disappointment to the rest of the country was through poetry. Langston Hughes and Claude McKay were two famous Harlem Renaissance poets. Both expressing equality and other similar qualities. “Harlem” by Langston Hughes and “If We Must Die” by Claude McKay both have their unique and differences on the accounts of death by using metaphors, similes, and imagery.…
Every individual’s definition of American and view for the American Dream is different. Many factors contribute to these different views such as – race, age, gender, ethnicity, and social background. The term American can simply mean being an American citizen and having the ability to vote. Depending on your definition of American it can define your view of the American Dream. The American Dream can vary from your typical white picket fence dream to a far more complex idea like providing for your family, receiving an education and achieving goals.…
D.E.B Dubois and Langston Hughes fight for Racial Equality Protest is a way of doing an act to be heard or acknowledged with something people disagree with. Throughout history many African American protested through literature. D.E.B Dubois and Langston Hughes are African American authors who have famous works that have gotten attention though the work of literature. These two authors have a lot of the same beliefs and has made a big impact of the African American culture.…
Walt Whitman is considered one of the greatest poets in history for incorporating new forms of writing in his poems. He developed free verse, a style many modern rap artists utilize. For these reasons, his impact on American poetry is also akin to the impact rap has had on American music. Firstly, Whitman often produced poetry that did not conform to the standard rhyme and meter of earlier works.…
Watching the news, you will see many stories of people being attacked, threatened, or even killed because of something that sets them apart from society--whether it is their race, sexuality, gender, religion, or almost anything else about the person. As you watched those news stories, have you ever wondered how this could happen, yet we still have the guts to call ourselves a united country? Anna Quindlen and Langston Hughes did. In Quindlen's "A Quilt of a Country: Out of Many One?" and Hughes's "We're All in the Telephone Book", the two writers shared similar ideas about America, such as unity despite our differences, how our differences may not even exist, and how America is full of people from all across the globe.…
Abraham Lincoln is one of the most well known presidents. His most known feat was being president during the Civil War. Being as loved as he was he had many stories and poems written about him. I will be discussing two of these. The first is Lincoln: A Photobiography by Russel Freedman.…
Essay One Rough Draft INTRODUCTION: Everyone has a dream in life; following it can be the most important thing in ones life. The Road Not Taken written by Robert Forest and Harlem written by Langston Hughes discuss the importance of following your dreams. Frost does a better job at expressing to his readers about going after their dreams unlike Hughes who leaves the readers unsettled.…
For me personally, the Socratic seminar did help with some of the topics we talked about like about school back then. In that time, a teacher could hit a student and it was okay and excepted it wasn’t really a big deal but now if a teacher hits a student they would get in trouble and possible loss their job. I also found it a bit weird these kids get so much freedom they get to leave school in the middle of the day to go home and eat lunch and then go back to school. In the Socratic seminar, we also talked about Miss. Caroline and how she is still really new to teaching.…
Pavel Freeman and Krystyna Chiger There’s two ways out, death, or the unthinkable. Those were the choices Pavel Freeman and Krystyna Chiger were given. Both of these authors wrote a poem or article about freedom and their experiences during the Holocaust. This event happened in 1942 during WWII. Both the ghettos they wrote about were in Poland.…
Many poets are very different and some are revolutionary. Almost all poets before Whitman wrote with a pattern in their poetry, but Whitman changed that and became the father of free verse poetry. In Dickinson 's poetry it reflects her loneliness in her life and most of the people in her poetry are in a state of want. These poets are very different and have really changed the direction of poetry over time. Whitman and Dickinson poems are similar yet very different at the same time.…
We all know America as a ‘land of opportunities’. In Walt Whitman’s America, we see a positive view that focuses on equality and freedom thus, represents America as a happy and peaceful place. And in McKay’s America he shows a negative view thus, we see the hate, anger, and discrimination. Both poets present their perspectives of America, but they are very different. By exploring the lives and works of both Walt Whitman and Claude McKay, we understand how America, the same country, can be a country to one where only love, law, and freedom prevails and to another it is full of hate and racism.…
It is hard to pinpoint the beginning of American writing, the exact time it separates from European culture and gains its distinct character. Despite the nationalistic texts written by Ralph Waldo Emerson or Walt Whitman, American literature was not treated as independent tradition for a long time. Even in American schools when national authors were discussed they were always somehow fused with British ones until the end of the 19th century. Within the literature of The United States we can find a significant number of various influences such as Native American legends written down long after they were told, New England novels, African American songs and stories, women's prose or journals, all of forged the classical canon of America. Just like any other national literature, America's was shaped by the country's history which is why African American writers are an inherent part of the American literary tradition.…
The Romantic movement provided readers with works consisting of passionate emotion, an appreciation for the natural world, and individualism. Elements of Romanticism have been recognized in works from a multitude of different cultures. Significantly, William Wordsworth is widely known as one of the great English Romantic poets. In addition, Walt Whitman, an American poet, has also been acknowledged for the Romantic elements in his works. Although both poets are from two different cultures, their works share ideals present in Romanticism.…
Who am I? Where did I come from? What religion should I practice? Who is my God? These are questions that African Americans have yet to adequately answer.…
Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman were two highly influential poets from America during the 1800’s; critics as being radical as it rejected the traditional conventions of death in a dominantly Puritan state describe their poetry. Both poets were fascinated by the theme death throughout their poetry, although their depictions of death were different, both poets shared the similar concept that death leads to immortality and therefore should be embraced. However, despite sharing similarities in their overall message, both Whitman and Dickinson possessed unique writing styles different from the other. This can be seen in Whitman’s epic A Song of Myself, which employs the use of free verse; a form not constricted by regular rhyme or meter. Dickinson’s…