Harlem Renaissance Poetry by Anna Cooper https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h en-us 2022-10-10 15:01:51 UTC 2022-10-13 14:59:16 UTC hello@padlet.com Arna Botemps- A Black Man Talks of Reaping ac10716 https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333727781 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  
]]> 2022-10-10 15:03:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333727781 Angelina Grimke- Tenebris ac10716 https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333728679 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 
]]> 2022-10-10 15:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333728679 Langston Hughes- I, too ac10716 https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333729072 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
]]> 2022-10-10 15:04:10 UTC https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333729072 Helene Johnson- Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem ac10716 https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333729712 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 
]]> 2022-10-10 15:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333729712 Claude McKay- The White House ac10716 https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333730064 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
]]> 2022-10-10 15:04:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333730064 Countee Cullen- From the Dark Tower ac10716 https://padlet.com/ac10716/357byvqmwh7mu83h/wish/2333759158 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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