The New Negro
According to “The Muse” in 1920 a famous journalist H. l Mencken Gave Chicago the name “literary capital of the united states”. The writers of Chicago literary capital moved to the fast growing of the world’s great cities. The most immediate influence of white Chicago writers on African American letters were in poetry. There was a lot of writers of the Chicago literacy but Johnson wrote most of them. Johnson lived in New York studied in Columbia university school of journalism .for six years he worked as a journalist in Chicago. “The champion magazine” one of Johnsons magazines included black achievements in music, sport, and theater. I think he point was to show that African American did have achievement and where good at most things and how successful some were. The magazine where …show more content…
I found that very impressive because he took credit of his own work and was confident in what he did.
The Scarlet women
First the title caught my attention was “scarlet women” the definition was some sort of prostitute when first reading it I thought of a women not being able to care for herself. Then I reread it and put the prostitution part in.
“My father worked for Mr. Pullman and white people tips but he died two days after his insurance expired. I had nothing so I had to go to work all the stock I had was a white girl’s education and a face that enchanted the men of both races.”
This part of the poems stood out to me because first it showed sorrow because she was independent .Then it was shame because her father passed away and all she knew was how to seduce men of both races with her looks for money.
Tired
This was an interesting poem as well the I felt that Fenton was stand up for his self you can feel the frustration as you read through
According to “The Muse” in 1920 a famous journalist H. l Mencken Gave Chicago the name “literary capital of the united states”. The writers of Chicago literary capital moved to the fast growing of the world’s great cities. The most immediate influence of white Chicago writers on African American letters were in poetry. There was a lot of writers of the Chicago literacy but Johnson wrote most of them. Johnson lived in New York studied in Columbia university school of journalism .for six years he worked as a journalist in Chicago. “The champion magazine” one of Johnsons magazines included black achievements in music, sport, and theater. I think he point was to show that African American did have achievement and where good at most things and how successful some were. The magazine where …show more content…
I found that very impressive because he took credit of his own work and was confident in what he did.
The Scarlet women
First the title caught my attention was “scarlet women” the definition was some sort of prostitute when first reading it I thought of a women not being able to care for herself. Then I reread it and put the prostitution part in.
“My father worked for Mr. Pullman and white people tips but he died two days after his insurance expired. I had nothing so I had to go to work all the stock I had was a white girl’s education and a face that enchanted the men of both races.”
This part of the poems stood out to me because first it showed sorrow because she was independent .Then it was shame because her father passed away and all she knew was how to seduce men of both races with her looks for money.
Tired
This was an interesting poem as well the I felt that Fenton was stand up for his self you can feel the frustration as you read through