Modernism

In just by e.e. cummings

"In just spring when the world is mud licious the little lame balloon man whistles far and we and Eddie and Bill come running for marbles and Pharisees and it's spring when the world is puddle wonderful the queer old blue man with sills far and we and Betty and Isabel come dancing from hopscotch and jump rope and it's spring and the goat footed balloon man whistles far and wee" •Written in a new format •Had recently rained •Spring represents the growth renewal in new cleansing •Whimsical •Balloon man is pan •pan - free spirited people come to him

In a station of the metro by Ezra Pound

"The apparition of these faces in the crowd; petals on a wet, black bough" •bough-main branch • Juxtaposition •apparition-ghostlike image appearance or something remarkable Or unexpected typically an image • about people whom are looking out from a crowd

Fog by Carl Sandburg

"The fog comes on little cat feet it sits looking over harbor and city on silence hunches and then moves on" • metaphor •He compared the **** to cats •Cats appear out of nowhere

The great figure. By William Carlos Williams

"among the rain and lights I saw the figure 5 in gold on a red fire truck moving tense unheeded to gong clangs siren howls and wheels rumbling through the dark city" • onomatopoeia •No time to linger •Emphasizes the type of movement

The red wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams

"so much depends upon a red wheelbarrow glaze with rainwater besides the white chickens" • small things depend on big things as his big things depend on small things • The barrel is clean

Harlem by Langston Hughes

"what happens to a dream deferred does it dry up like a raisin in the sun or fester like a sore and then run or does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet maybe it's just sags like a heavy load or does it explode'' •Audience is everyone •Deferred-dream that has been avoided redirected to bring down • is positive yet negative • african-Americans that once had a dream that was shut down by a white man • Tone destroys the dream bittersweet negative connotation •Sometimes things can be too sweets too good to be true

Soldiers home

Antihero Loneliness Did not want to lie Nothing no longer matter and living had no reason

Any human to another by countee cullen

Audience dedicated to one human to another yes Sickness Share the same grief Comparing the water grievances sharing grief We have to be empathetic for one another Emotions connect people

If we must due

Blacks should not die like animals shameful and disgraceful doomed Should die and honorable death Black Panther movement

Incident by Countee Cullen

Raised in a racist family The boy A little boy went to Baltimore he was very happy and he saw a Baltimorean looking at him The boys smiled in the vault boy called him a Niger That's all he remembers from his trip

The Negro speaks of rivers by Langston Hughes

Slaves all black people His grandmother being sold by the river Nile river Rivers in Africa Unifying for all Historical pasts

A black man talks of reaping.

Speaker farmer worker Can put 100% into farming but nature can destroy it Short shops that drains all the work Slave that works really hard and doesn't get paid enough attention for it Maybe a store copper The children are disappointed that their dad is working his ass off and has nothing to show for it Slave owners children The children then have to steal to prevents starvation

How does America. Define success

The American dream Money

How did the influx of African American writers impact American

The Harlem Renaissance Americans were unable to understand the perspective of African-Americans prior

How did disillusionment fall the World War I impact American literature

The roaring 20s Nonconformists Coming-of-age Artistic innovations Alienation Existentialism Primitivism Harlem Renaissance

I to boiling some Hughes

They= White folks Faced with racism possibly by segregation He is an American citizen Allusion when he says I hear America singing celebration of America Positive tone he doesn't do well on what's going on is optimistic about the future Bold Passive aggressive Aggressive

How feels to be a colored me by Zora Neal Hurston

Tone sarcastic misleading a stab wishes Ethan's governed by African-Americans Confident and joyful

Mending wall by Robert frost

•Literally wall that separates cow from cow •narrator is self-aware and questions why there is a Rockwall • owners who live on both sides of the wall are just following pass generations • boundaries create privacy which keeps peace ."good fences make good neighbors" •ignorance

Theme for English be by Langston Hughes

•Student that wrote a paper •In the beginning he asked if it was too simple yet it's not complicated he just has a lot to say •He goes to school with all white folks •He does not live on the campus he lives at the Y •He pulled a live at the Y don't have money •He is not just a part of Harlem but he's a part of New York as well •Used alliteration when he said Bessie bop or Bach •Shows confidence calm this honesty truthfulness and is forward •"sometimes perhaps you don't want to be a part of me nor do I often want to be a part of you but we are that is true" •Langston must be more free than his teacher

The Garden by Ezra Pound

•The woman is frail dainty and fragile •Sickly •Did not admire the servants who seems unkillable •The upper-class is well bred •Was lonely alienated she spoke to her self and was above speaking to poor people •She wants and needs the narrator to talk

Richard Cory by E.A.Robinson

•Tone humble •speaker random every day people •Was educated looks like the ideal person •Richard Cory was a rich man who had a crown symbolically on his head •People looked up to him •People that could not afford meets because they were poor •Yet they did not know that Richard Cory was sad and missing something •At the end he killed himself with a bullet through his head

The Death of the Ball turret gunner By Randall Jarell

•Tone is somber •military/governments •safety security of home to government •never would hear mother imagine him leaving •went from easy or hard •brutal death/ died in war

Poetry by marianne moore

•audience people that don't like poetry •the author says those who don't like poetry don't understand it •how would she must be imaginary but real in life

Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robert frost

•literal • nothing perfect can stay:the sunrise, it's gold for a short time