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Tone: Rebellious-

"So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, / And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds." (lines 13-14)

Poetic Sound Devices: Irregular Rhyme- Line 1 rhymes with lines 4, 5, and 8.
Figurative Language: Personification-

"The night whose sable breast relieves the stark," (line 9).

Thematic Ideas: Resistance

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Tone: Angry

"To bear my anger proudly and unbent," (line 4)

Poetic Sound Devices: ABAB Rhyme Scheme
Assonance-

"...the decent street" (line 7)

Figurative Language:
Hyperbole-

"And find in it the superhuman power" (line 11)

Idiom-

"And I am sharp as steel with discontent," (line 2)
"Against the poison of your deadly hate." (line 14)

Thematic Ideas: Inequality

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Helene Johnson- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

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Helene Johnson- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem

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Tone: Passive Aggressive-

"You are disdainful and magnificent— / Your perfect body and your pompous gait," (Line 1-2).

Poetic Sound Devices: Assonance-

"Scorn will efface each footprint that you make." (Line 12).

Figurative Language: Irony-

"You are disdainful and magnificent—," (Line 1).

Thematic Ideas: Change

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Tone: Pride-

"They’ll see how beautiful I am / And be ashamed—" (Line 16-18).

Poetic Sound Devices: Alliteration-

"When company comes," (Lines 4 and 10).

Figurative Language: Synecdoche-

"I, too, am America." (Line 18).

Thematic Ideas: Recognition

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Tone: Curious-

" Is it a black hand, / Or is it a shadow? " (Lines 12-13)

Poetic Sound Devices: Alliteration-

"A hand huge..." (Line 4) "The black hand plucks and plucks" (Line 9)

Figurative Language: Personification-

"There is a tree... / That... / Has a shadow, / A hand huge and black, / With fingers long and black. " (Lines 1-5)

Thematic Ideas: Revenge for past discretions

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Arna Botemps- A Black Man Talks of Reaping

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Arna Botemps- A Black Man Talks of Reaping

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Tone: Melancholy and Yearning:

" I planted deep, within my heart the fear/ That wind or fowl would take the grain away." " Small wonder then my children glean in fields // They have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit."

Poetic Sound Devices: Rhyming Couplet
Figurative Language: Hyperbole-

"I scattered seed enough to plant the land/ In rows from Canada to Mexico"

This emphasizes the amount of work and time he has put in.

Thematic Ideas: Sacrifice and Reminiscing