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Discussion Group One |
Discussion group 1
Discuss poetry of the Harlem Renaissance. Choose ONE of the following topics for discussion:
- Langston Hughes biography
- Countee Cullen biography
- history of Harlem
- Racism in publishing in 20's and 30's
- racism in the United States 1920 and 30s
- analysis of one of the following poems:
- bontemps: "a black man talks of reaping”
- cullen: "yet do I marvel”
- cullen: “Saturday's Child"
- cullen: “from the dark Tower"
- grimke: "the black finger" and "tenebris"
- Hughes: "Harlem”
- Hughes: "the weary blues"
- Hughes: “I, too”
- Johnson: “Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem”
- McKay: “Harlem shadows”
or create your own, clearing it with instructor first.
© T. T. Eiland, January 1998
Last modified: February 12, 2011
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