Harlem Renaissance Poems

1.} These rivers are in Africa. He might have chposen these specific rivers because they are big and beautiful or they might be old. The river symbolizes the linkage of all human life from the earliest time to the present. He continues naming rivers that represent the history of Western culture.

2.} When Langton Hughes says i am the darker brother, he means the black race. This poem serves as a critic on the life of a black man, who is unfairly not regarded as the American that he actually is. It foreshadows the uprising black movement toward freedom and equality within the country and discusses the shame whites will experience after realizing the disgusting nature of their treatment toward blacks.

3.} refer to number 6 but still the same in the sense that he uses more stronger word, and it will appeal more to the black race.
















5.} In “Note on Commercial Theatre” Hughes reflects the views of W.E. B. DuBois who wrote that Negroes don’t want whites to write about them. Hughes felt that whites often distorted the picture of blacks and wrote about them only for personal financial gains. The same issue are still going on till today.

6.} Identity





Claude Mckay's Africa, If we must die

1.} Maybe in the peom,Harlots mean slaves. Maybe because slaves and harlots can be compared because harlots are people who use their bodies as slaves.

2.}The usage of the phrase is appropriate, for history verifies that dogs were used to attack, subdue, frighten, and murder blacks. When Mckay says hogs, he is referring to slaves who are killed for defying their masters, When he says dogs he refers to the white people that treat them harshly. He uses the phrase "if we must die" a couple of times, indicating that he doesn't want to be killed horribly. For that reason, furious action must be taken and that action is to strike back.

3.} Mckay's Language differs form other poets language because he uses harsher or more stronger words to prove his poin in each of his point. He uses this diction to get his point to all the black people out there at that time so that they won't die a wasteful death.The poem in general is a protest to all blacks, declaring this, Don't settle with the mistreatments and nefarious acts by whites and fight back. He uses his voice just like other blacks to encourage boldness and that's what he did.