Also, the use of visual and auditory imagery allows the reader to depict vividly the surrounds of the slave times and the seriousness of the struggles they are faced with. The sound is shown in the phrase “voice high-sounding o’er the storm” and the visuals are shown in the line “Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways”. The poet concludes with the use of pathetic fallacy in the phrase “lonely dark”. This is used to evict emotion onto the reader with the depiction of the state of loneliness. Overall, Dunbar makes clear the message, as well as fulfils the purpose of this poem for readers of all
Compare the ways in which feelings are expressed in ‘Nothing’s Changed’ and one other poem of your choice. ‘Nothing’s changed’ and ‘Half-caste’ are both poems written about the emotional implications of racial discrimination. Authors, Tatamkhulu Afrika and John Agard, both express their feelings of the theme in their poems – although they both do so in different ways. Evidential with the explicitness of the title, ‘Nothing changed’ is an auto-biographical account of Afrika’s emotional return to his childhood town (District 6). The title itself reveals to the reader what the contents of the poem may include: ‘Nothing’s changed’ is quite definitive in itself as it shows that the poem will discuss how, even though the exposure of time, things stayed the same.
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.
Maybe because us as a people always want what we don’t have, that when we have it we all of a sudden it in undesirable. He compares Hugh’s slaughterhouse experience to the lackluster field trips he had as a young boy. Of course the more interesting trip will take place in Africa. Hugh got to travel all over the world due to the fact that his father was a career officer for the US State Department. Hugh has lived in many exotic places, from Ethiopia to the
Further into the poem, the reader is able to understand more about Hughes and his thoughts on racial difference. He is able to provide his views of racism, social status, and political equality in America (Scharnhorst). Hughes depicts himself as young, colored and educated male and tries to give the reader an understanding of his life experience. Hughes’ paper, in the form of a poem, details what he feels. His feelings come from his school and community, Harlem, and its impact on him.
“Through his long career as a professional writer, Hughes remained true to the African American heritage he celebrated in his writings, which were frankly ”racial in theme and treatment, derived from the life I know” (1131 Meyer) . All of his poems inspiration comes from his life and experiences dealing with racism, segregation, and overall struggle for the average black man and woman. “I Too”, “motto”, and “High to Low” each explain their own stories of his struggles, and of others. Langston Hughes is one of the few that can write out his poems in a simplistic manner to paint a vivid picture of the struggles of African – American and also help give that sense of “You are not alone” feel. “I too” Is a poem that speaks about the racial times in America.
Both poems are rich in material, just waiting to be dug up, interpreted, and reinterpreted again. The poet`s different strategies on the usage of images and emotion, and other poetic devices really project an experience to the reader. My purpose is to, step by step, go through various poetic device, present the similarities and differences, convince you that both have similar roots, but also locate where poetic devices of the poems stem apart – particularly highlighting the effect on the child. Both poem`s overarching themes are of paternal, or family, dysfunction. Interestingly in “American Primitive”, the speaker initially purveys a sense of wonderment and admiration towards the father.
Many even consider him a pioneer of Afrobeats music. Afrobeats music is known to be a combination of traditional Yoruba music, Jazz, highlife, funk and chanted vocals, fused with percussion and vocal styles, which was very popular in Africa in the 1970’s. Throughout Kuti family there was much leadership and success. His mother Funmilanyo was known as a feminist activist. While his father Oludotun Rasome Kuti was a protestant minister and a school principal.
The Reawakening of the Soul People express their inner-self through several mediums, from writing, to painting, to playing music. Langston Hughes, influenced by the struggles presented in the Harlem Renaissance, expressed his inner-self though his poetry. Langston Hughes emphasizes how music replenishes the soul through emotional connections by the use of form and language in his poems “The Weary Blues”, “Jazzonia, and “Danse Africaine”. Langston Hughes, in “The Weary Blues”, expresses that the working class communicates their societal and personal problems through music, similar to the songs “played on Seventh Street”, as described by Langston Hughes himself (“Songs on Seventh Street”). The speaker’s repetition and personification of the “[piano's] moan” portrays the transfer of struggle from the speakers heavy soul to the instrument which reveals the ordeals that have troubled the musician and have caused him to display his emotional distress through his music.
Langston Hughes was a central figure in the Harlem Renaissance; He was one of the innovators of the literary art form of jazz poetry. Langston Hughes’ writings brought attention to the plight of the suffering, injustice and repression of African Americans. "Throughout his long career as a professional writer, Hughes remained true to the African American heritage he celebrated in his writings, which were frankly "racial in theme and treatment, derived from the life I know." (901). Langston Hughes uses metaphor, diction, imagery, and allusion in a lot of his poems.