Hughes uses the title Harlem to symbolize the message and refer to the unfulfilled dreams of African Americans lingering that town in his day. In Harlem by Langston Hughes, the author is explaining what happens when a dreams deferred and vaguely illustrates how that can affect a person. The poem paints a picture of what can happen when dreams deferred, and indirectly tells the reader how a dream can take a negative effect on a person. Hughes starts off by asking “what happens to a dream deferred?”, then initially he answers that question using more questions that reflect on what is similar to the experience. Hughes compares a deferred dream to “ a raisin in the sun” due to the fact it was once a healthy purple fruit and is now all shriveled and unattractive to view, he uses “in the sun” to emphasize how to the dreamer feels defeat and the raisin to show further effects.
I understand where Freeman is coming from, but he doesn’t seem to fully grasp or understand the meaning of Black History Month. It means more than sharing stories and history about famous important black Americans. It means more than the rights they well deserved, or the freedoms they overcame. It’s the important picture behind all of it. I think it’s the celebration of change, the month that sets hope for other issues that strike our country daily.
Deferred dreams may simply “Dry up like a raisin in the sun” thus changing their appearance while maintain their flavor, or perhaps they “Fester like a sore, and then run”, vanishing forever. Langston Hughes alludes to the timeless theatrical production “A Raisin in the Sun,” which centers on an African American family fighting for a dream. This allusion directly relates to the ambitious theme of the poem. The speaker continues into the poem with more questions that use symbolism to dig deeper into the mind of the reader, “Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over - like a syrupy sweet?
Philosophers saw it as an opportunity to put African American issues at a place of importance. Some also considered it jus a strategic business opportunity for publishers, theatre producers, and other entrepreneurs during the 1920s and 30s. The most voiced opinion was that of the African Americans who participated in this “New Negro Movement”. Especially the Blacks whose lives were documented, affected, and imitated in the artwork and theatre productions of that time frame. The importance of Harlem as the origin of the renaissance in the visual arts in the 1920s and 30s is highly questionable.
An unattended raisin will shrivel and dry, a sore will fester and run, meat will rot, and a sweet will crust over. These metaphors paint a picture for the reader that causes them to cringe in disgust. Hughes effectively provokesthe reader out of complacency and forces them to consider their own dreams that have been deferred. A raisin is a sweet nutritious fruit unless dried up and hardened to the point where it cannot be eaten, meat is full of protein and nourishes the body, but when it becomes rancid can harm the body and even be lethal.
Johnson offered black writers the challenge of being linked to other cultural movements around the world like the Irish or Czech, national ethnic pride. The major American poets who exerted any particular degree of influence on the Harlem Renaissance were E.A Robinson and Carl Sandburg. The significance of Alain Locke's anthology was how it combined work from both black and white writers and raised racial awareness with a desire for literacy and art. Jean Toomer's Cane significance is the illustrations of several of the peculiar challenges and opportunities of the nascent movement. The content of Jean Toomer's Cane consisted of high volumes of poems that opened with evocative portraits of black south to blacks in northern cities.
The Negro Speaks of Rivers is a great poem that references the history of African Americans from slavery to freedom. In this poem Langston Hughes does a great job of underlying the message to the reader. He hides the meaning of the poem in rivers and human veins. But through these images and details, it becomes clear to the reader how to understand the themes of the poem. This poem is important to readers because it gives insight to how African Americans first started off as slaves and then later triumphed and became free.
Both of these writers might seem like they had different ideas, but they both elaborated on new methods that makes one’s work modernistic, making the future bright for their descendants and followers. When reading “Modern Fiction,” I noticed that Woolf explains her way of defining ways to create a good fiction modernistically while she points out what makes a bad fictional writing as well. Being one of England’s famous authors of her time period, between World War I and World War II (Encyclopedia of World Biography. 2nd ed. Vol.
Jin Yoon English 11H, Period 3 Williams May 7, 2013 Tell all the Truth but tell it slant Has anyone ever asked you something that completely surprised you? The feeling of being caught off guard or feeling overwhelmed brings an interesting perspective into the light regarding personal disclosure. In fact, the truth affects all people in different ways primarily depending on how the message is perceived by the recipient. In Emily Dickinson’s poem Tell all the Truth but tell it slant, Dickinson effectively illustrates the need for people to gently tell the whole truth while diluting it so the listener does not become devastated through the use of metaphor, literal writing style, and word-choice. Throughout the poem, Dickinson uses a natural metaphor when comparing truth to light.
The Three Worst Junk Foods The word “junk” is a slang term used to quantify any food that is low in nutrition values, and very high in saturated fat, sugar, sodium, or trans-fat with some additives that are not friendly to our bodies. Consuming any food comprised of all the elements listed above can increase the risk of health hazards, such as stroke, obesity, diabetes, tooth decay, elevated blood glucose and cholesterol, which can lead to heart problems. There are three junk foods listed below that fall into the class of worst junk foods: French fries, doughnuts and soft drinks or sodas. Why French fries are considered junk food? French fries very high in saturated fat, trans fat, sodium, cholesterol and sugar.