American poets

In order to show the need for change within American society, one acts with rebellious behavior to portray their emotions. American literature illustrates the desire for change, in which characters act in rebellious manner to try and institute this. The correlation to the maintenance of innocence; a characters strive to achieve their purpose; and the desire to witness to change, manifest themselves into the characters deemed rebellious rejection of societal standards. Holden Caulfield is…

Renaissance poetry, and Respectable Woman. For many, this period was a time of pushing boundaries, especially for African-Americans who had migrated north looking to get away from the harsh Jim Crow laws of the south. The Great Migration spurred The Harlem Renaissance, a time of inspirational and revolutionary poetry about the effects of racism and ways to move past it; the poets finally felt free to express…

Nikki Giovanni not like any other writer is a strong, independent, African American woman. Although, her childhood wasn’t the brightest, it pushed her to strive and become one of the best female poets in literary history. Her books and her poems zoom in on the struggles of many African Americans and her own personal experiences. Not many people can say that they succeeded in their life and are satisfied at where they are now. Not only can Nikki Giovanni say she succeeded and made a better life…

Mixed is an inside look at a mixed-race woman’s self-discovery. The author was born to an African-American mother and a white father in Philadelphia, on December 5, 1978. She spent her life in Pennsylvania until moving to Los Angeles, California. Although Angela Nissel became a successful writer with her witty sense of humor, it took years to accept her true heritages and to find her place on Earth. It is likely one of the most amazing tragicomedy memoirs launched in its genre. She has a…

According to the Oxford Companion to American Literature, Lost Generation is "the name applied to the disillusioned intellectuals and aesthetes of the years following the First World War, who rebelled against former ideals and values, but could replace them only by despair or a cynical hedonism" (Hart, 1995, p.390). Gertrude Stein was the critic who gave them that name which later on will be used by Hemingway as a preface to his novel The Sun Also Rises. Most of these writers, who were members…

My interest for potentially becoming a part of the Psi Theta Omega Chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. is based on the personal and professional development of its members and the social change that results in equality. I view Psi Theta Omega Chapter as a huge advocate for the metropolitan Orlando area when it comes to the community service and its involvement of its educational growth of its young ladies. These are a major focus that has sparked my interest in understanding what this…

many upcoming authors and poets the ability to express themselves. After World War I, The Great Migration of approximately half a million African Americans from the rural south to the bustling and promising north gave way to the formation and beginning of the Harlem Renaissance-New Negro era. Within the next ten years more than 750,000 African Americans would follow which increased the black northern population by a stunning amount. This was the start of black Americans discovering and seeking…

Analysis of two poems In this essay I will be analyzing and comparing two poems. The first poem is called “I too” and is written in ca. 1920, by Langston Hughes, an African American poet. The second poem is called “The primitive” and is written by the author, Don L. Lee, in 1968. Both of the poems are written by African Americans during the height of the segregation, which adds to the writers’ credibility as well as reinforcing the appeal to emotion, pathos and the ethical appeal, ethos. The…

Langston Hughes is the author of the poem “I, Too” which describes the person narrating the story not who is allowed to eat at the table when company arrives because of his race. The narrator describes how he isn’t bothered by this and that he laughs as well and eats to grow strong. Unaccepting of this treatment of segregation, he says he won’t eat in the kitchen anymore and they will see his beauty and be ashamed of the segregation. Now, while this may be an easy poem to read and leave this…

The word diasposa is the perfect description of her heritage. It means the scattering of a people from their ancestral home . She is a descendent of Latin American, Jewish, Aftican and North American heritage and she describes herself as saying she is none of these things outwardly, they are within her (Clugston).. This collage of nationalities forms the theme of this poem. The tone of She clearly knows who she is and is proud of the fact that she is confident. The tone of this poem is…