American poets

Walkers Writings Throughout the history of writings, authors have changed their style, tone, and ideas; the biggest change is how and what they write about. Alice Walker is an author, activist, and also a poet. Inspired by personal experience, Walker portrays the struggles of African-American women to transcend the limits imposed on their lives by racism and sexism. Her characters usually face violence and hardship, and walker uses that to emphasize the power of hope and the strength of the…

Some problems that were occurring are discrimination, dictatorships, and abuses of minorities. African American artists understood these views and collaborated since they nearly settled in the same cities throughout the United States. Not just in the United States but on both sides of the border the struggles of common people were deeply shown in these murals, these pieces art. African Americans…

Claude McKay’s “If We Must Die” is a bold poem written during an eventful time for civil rights history, the Harlem Renaissance. During the Harlem Renaissance the African American community endured extreme racism and degradation. McKay wrote this poem with the intent to display his feelings as an immigrant who moved to America for a better life but instead was thrown into a situation where he was treated like an animal instead of a person. He chose to write this poem in the form of a…

Malcolm X is an African American man who was born Malcolm Little on May 19, 1925. Malcolm was born in Omaha, Nebraska to his mother Louise Norton Little and Father Earl Little. Malcolm and a friend of his met up and moved to Boston. Malcolm and his friend got into some trouble and was arrested due to burglary charges and Malcolm was sentenced to 10 years in prison and after seven years was granted parole after serving 7 years. During his few years in prison, Malcolm began to become a better…

author of these two poems is Langston Hughes. Hughes was born in 1902 and died in 1967 (Wikipedia, 2018). He was American poet, social activist, and novelist. He was from Joplin, Missouri. He was one of the people to start the innovation of jazz poetry. He was also known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in New York (Wikipedia, 2018). His grandmothers were both African American slaves and his grandfathers were both white slave owners (Wikipedia, 2018). These two poems in the Montage…

Poetry Explication and Analysis Essay: The Trumpet Player Part 1: Scansion and Analysis Langston Hughes is a very famous poet and literary writer. “The Trumpet Player”, a poem by Langston Hughes, successfully displays and shows the importance of musical expression specifically in the African American community. “The Trumpet Player” is a literary musically influenced jazz poem. This poem contains five stanzas, including eight lines in each stanza, as well as a four-line coda. “The Trumpet…

savior of the African American people. Although the bible was used as a weapon to oppress African Americans, during slavery, it was also viewed as a beacon of hope during times of immense struggle. African Americans were able to evaluate the bible and reconfigure it to their specific needs. The following works will explain the transformation of the connection between black identity and religion through the chronological works of African American poets during different eras in American history.…

Various clashing ideas of how racial identity should be portrayed in literature exist in the world today. Many of these views came about in America following the conclusion of the Civil War, when African American slaves were liberated and finally became able to freely express themselves in the midst of a white society. One view commonly promoted by that white society is that of leaving behind one’s original culture for America’s (majorly white) culture. President Theodore Roosevelt advocated for…

Jazz is a music type that began from African American groups of New Orleans in the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It emerged as independent conventional music style connected by common bonds of European American and African American musical parentage with an execution introduction. Jazz traverses a time of over a hundred years, incorporating an extensive variety of music, making it hard to characterize. Jazz makes substantial utilization of improvisation,…

Maya Angelou, a poet, writer, and civil rights activist. She was born on April 4, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri as Marguerite Annie Johnson. Her childhood was very difficult. Her parents split when she was very young. Her and her older brother, Bailey were sent to live with their grandmother in Arkansas. She had to endure racial discrimination. One day while visiting her mother, her mother’s boyfriend raped her. She was so traumatized by the incident that she became mute. Maya moved to San…