Lorna Crozier’s poem, “Repetitions for my Mother” and Buddy Wakefield’s poem “Guitar Repair Women” present the lives of the speaker. In Crozier’s poem the speaker sounds like if their mother is gone the speaker would not be able live on without their mother “I want so much emptiness/for her to fill.” While in Wakefield’s poem the speaker is mature and calm, he talks about his past memories. He’s a strong young man; he can probably live without his mother and he also has a job that will be his future “I play
The author explores the value of the artistic potential found in the black people and the manner that it has been absorbed into the American culture. The position of the black race has always faced series of criticisms and often been considered feeble.3 The author suggests that the only remedy to the matter is to behave as if there is no color difference between human races. After many years of holding back the true Negro
The most popular form of theatrical performance in America in the nineteenth century, blackface minstrelsy emerged during the 1820s and reached its peak during the years 1850–70. Minstrel performances presented stereotypical and demeaning caricatures of African Americans, romantic portrayals of life on the slave plantations of the South, and served to enforce the negative stereotypes of African Americans. The career of Thomas Dartmouth
This resulted in her getting involved with an older man at the tender age of twelve. Dreaming to be a mother from that young age, she finally adopted two young girls, Marie and Jeanette, in the hope of becoming a loving and nurturing mother to them. However, wounds of their past conflicted with Hogan’s dreams of the present. She soon discovered the pain and trauma her daughters went through as abused children. “With our oldest daughter, all the pain fell outward, onto others, whom she would hit or abuse, but for Jeanette, pain came to an inward point” (84).
A tomboy, a curious child, and a maturing girl, Scout proves to be the most dynamic character in the novel. Set in the fictional Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, To Kill a Mockingbird tells the story of the Finch family during the Great Depression. Scout, the protagonist, lives with her widowed father, Atticus; her elder brother, Jem; and the family’s black cook, Calpurnia. Jem and Scout are friends with Dill, who spends each summer with his aunt in the town. The children soon become obsessed with their mysterious, reclusive neighbor, Boo Radley.
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.
The Ideological State Apparatus at work in George Schuyler’s Black No More George Schuyler was a controversial figure of the Harlem Renaissance. At a time when “race men” were glorifying a uniquely African American culture, Schuyler steadily purported the view that African Americans were primarily American, and did not differ from other immigrants. In his essay entitled “Negro-Art Hokum,” Schuyler writes: If the European immigrant after two or three generations of exposure to our schools, politics, advertising, moral crusades, and restaurants becomes indistinguishable from the mass of Americans of older stock…how much truer must it be of the sons of Ham who have been subjected to what the uplifters call Americanism for the last three hundred years. Aside from his color, which ranges from very dark brown to pink, your American Negro is just plain American. (37) Schuyler felt that by viewing Negro art as unique and separate, it helped to perpetuate myths of racial inferiority.
She describes that this new relationship was different than before; she feels that now they are closer than ever before. Aleshire points this out in the last stanza “I answer that I love him, too, but hardly knowing him, what I love is the way reserve has slipped from his feeling” (pg. 90) to describe that her father was a doctor and barely had enough time to spend with his daughter. Throughout the poem, Joan shows a message to the audience the love for her father. In Joan Aleshire’s poem, the theme she is portraying is her love for her father and that death is a toll that we all have to take.
The decisions she makes shows us, her desire to improve health and education level, but to also be finally making something out of herself other than just a house wife. These changes she is going through tells us her trying to gain her own independence. The reason for change in Norma’s life is the return of her husband Leroy. After 14 year of trucking Leroy’s injury causes him to come back home permanently, which causes unhappiness to Norma, leading her to say, “In some ways, a woman prefers a man who wonders”(Mason 76). Norma says this towards the end of the story, when Norma is essentially telling Leroy she wants to be alone.
I also discuss the relevance of her research and findings in todays’ society. Somerset (maiden name Alley), was born in 1894 into a family who was extremely involved with education. Her father, Fredric Alley, was head teacher at a school and was known for his passion for literature, music and the natural environment, while her mother, was a foundation member of the National Council of Women (May, 2011). Following in her father’s footsteps, Alley began her career training in 1914 as a teenage teacher-pupil at Elmwood School. When she arrived at the school she was shocked at the harsh discipline and described the room as “deathly quiet”.