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Langston Hughes was a profoundly talented African American poet who flourished during the Harlem Renaissance. He was only twenty-one years old when he wrote the poem “Mother to Son”. Even at a young age Hughes was able to use a simple exchange between a mother and son to convey a much deeper meaning. Through the use of imagery and metaphor Hughes eloquently paints a portrait of the struggles African-Americans have overcome throughout the history of the United States and the commitment to perseverance members of that race will need to survive.
The poem begins with a mother who has Continue reading...

Introduction

In this paper modernist poetry is analyzed. Modernism as a cultural period is considered to be a multinational movement which meant re-evaluation of the assumptions and aesthetic values of the past.  It is important to mention what is modernist poetry. This is considered to be a poetry mainly written by poets of North America and Europe between 1890 and 1950. It emerged as a result of technical revolution, inventions and World War I. Poets of this period made emphasis on personal view of the world, memories and emotions of the poet, culture of modern society.
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In “We are Seven” by William Wordsworth, the narrator begins by asking if a young girl, that is so full of life, could possibly know anything about the hard realities of death, arguing she did not know death. The poet narrator asks the rustic “little cottage girl” about the size of her family and she tells him seven, even though two are dead and “buried in a churchyard near her home/ Their graves are green, they can be seen” (30-33). The poet is a realist, and is unwilling to accept her explanation. To him, there are alone five children, Continue reading...

Jack Kerouac 1922-1969

Mexico City Blues
Got up and dressed up         and went out & got laidThen died and got buried         in a coffin in the grave,Man–         Yet everything is perfect,Because it is empty,Because it is perfect         with emptiness,Because it’s not even happening.

EverythingIs Ignorant of its own emptiness–AngerDoesn’t like to be reminded of fits–

You start with the Teaching         Inscrutable of the DiamondAnd end with it, your goal         is your starting place,No race has run, no walk         of prophetic toenailsAcross Arabies of hot         meaning–you just         numbly don’t get there.

In Vain Your name:

Jack Kerouac, 1922 - 1969
The stars in the skyIn vainThe tragedy of Hamlet   In vainThe key Continue reading...

A Third Body

A man and a woman sit near each other, and they do  not longAt this moment to be older, or younger, or bornIn any other nation, or any other time, or any other  place.They are content to be where they are, talking or not  talking.Their breaths together feed someone whom we do  not know.The man sees the way his fingers move;He sees her hands close around a book she hands to  him.They obey a third body that they share in common.They have promised to love that body.Age may come; parting may come; death will come!A man and Continue reading...

Bradstreet’s poem “Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment” is interesting when placed in the context of the time which it was written in. Puritan society placed a great emphasis on traditional male and female roles and on the institution of marriage, but Bradstreet’s poem is actually quite physical in nature, and hints at a level of sexual intimacy that is unexpected in a poem from this period. Frequent references to heat and warmth serve to emphasize the comparative coldness felt by Bradshaw at being left alone, such as “His warmth such frigid colds did cause Continue reading...