Jean Toomer

theme or repeated ideas are more apparent and occurring in readers’ minds. “Reapers” by Jean Toomer is a great example of a poem that uses symbolism and other poetic devices to deliver a message to the audience. This poem was published in 1923 after the First World War when there was a great technological boom and a lot of new technologies were invented. There was not an increase only in the variety of new products, but mass production allowed inventions like microwaves and refrigerators to be made at the large scale and incorporated…

Through Themes of Nature in Jean Toomer’s Poetry I have had the opportunity to read such great works from fantastically relevant immortal poets such as, Edgar Allen Poe, Emily Dickinson, and Robert Frost, just to name a few. But there is one, Harlem Renaissance poet Jean Toomer that intrigued me, not only because he was a talented poet but also because he was an African American poet. Now, being an African American and a poet wasn't necessarily unheard of but he wrote in a time where racism…

As an author of the Harlem Renaissance, Jean Toomer wrote for an audience composed of more than his peers. With Cane (Toomer, 1923), he reached for a black audience in search of identity. Influenced by classical poets William Blake and Walt Whitman, “stream-of-consciousness” novelist James Joyce, and novelist Sherwood Anderson’s short story collection, Winesburg, Ohio (1919), Cane also addresses a white audience receptive to the minority and mixed races that culturalist Onita Estes-Hicks refers…

Author Jean Toomer who is considered one of the Great American authors, wrote during the Harlem Renaissance period. Particularly, in his work titled Cane, written in 1923 we can see evidence of the characteristics, themes and style identified with the Harlem Renaissance movement which was an extant in American letters between 1914 and the mid-1930’s. As a representative of such a movement, Jean Toomer then remains one of the most identifiable and iconic writers of his time. Toomer was an…

Cane is considered a Harlem Renaissance masterpiece written by Jean Toomer. Cane is a collection of literary work that portray black life in the 1920s. The work consist of poems and prose that are broken up in to three parts. The first and third part take place in the segregated south, the third part is set in Chicago and Washington DC. When this book was first published it received glowing reviews and was proclaimed to one of the most influential works written by an African American Artist.…

The Great Migration marked the mass exodus of African Americans from the rural south to the urban north. The migration was sparked by increased racial violence in the South, the promise of better economic opportunities for Blacks, and a strong desire for reinvention. Influenced by the plight of African Americans in both regions, Jean Toomer published Cane in 1923. Using a mixture of poems and short stories, Toomer focuses on the Southern and Northern narrative and ultimately addresses the…

Jean Toomer was born in Washington attended the university of Wisconsin and the city of New York. Toomer first started his writing career in 1918 .He wrote short stories ,poems, sketches and reviews of national magazines. Toomer’s main focus was to write about race and gender and the struggle. During the 20’s Jean Toomer was the most promising of original voices of the Negro renaissance he was an American poet and novelist. His first published book was “Cane” about mixed race. “Editors refused…

looked right, and considering Singapore’s year round humidity; if I was going to perspire too much in my clothes. However, when I arrived in New York, getting dressed became a breeze. I noticed that I gravitated towards a standard “uniform” consisting of a T-shirt in white, black, or grey and a pair of jeans. In addition, I also realised that one, people in New York are almost always in black, and two; that no one really cares what you wear, or how you look. My question is what caused this…

Imagine Brittany Spears and Justin Timberlake wearing denim head to toe, thriving in a new trend at the American Music Awards. Exactly fifteen years ago these two stepped out in their bold, blue jeans. Denim trends have been altered and portrayed differently for years, yet the popularity and attraction of denim seems to always reappear. Whether celebrities or street style was the source of influence, denim continuously occurs in new and innovative ways. The most common denim trends for fall of…

The evolution of advertising has changed so much since the 1930’s, where clothing was marketed towards ‘everyday’ people. Looking back at the advertising from then, you can clearly tell they were marketed toward hard workers, busy house wives and active children all in one advertisement. Minimal skin was showing and typically the person in the advertisement was hosting a get together or working hard on the family farm. The most important part of advertisements in that era was about…