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Gwendolyn Brook’s “The Boy Died in My Alley” is a poem written in response to her previous writing, “of De Witt Williams on his way to Lincoln Cemetery”. Both poems are talking about a young black boy who is dead and two varying perspectives of him. The first poem, “of De Witt Williams on hisContinue reading “Gwendolyn Brooks”

I think this question is a valid one, especially because of the cultural conflictions that were occurring in the Harlem Renaissance era. My opinions on this are not very concrete because I believe that both Hughes as well as Keats and Cullen are all correct. I think that focusing on one’s personal culture and communityContinue reading “The Harlem Renaissance”

In Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave Chapter 10, Douglass explains his own experiences and horrors from Masters that he had that were supposedly Christian slaveholders. I don’t think Douglass had to do anything specifically to prove his point about the hypocrisy of Christian slaveowners. He simply told his story. AnyoneContinue reading “Fredrick Douglass”

I agree with Baym when she states that Nathaniel Hawthorne is a feminist writer, especially for his time. The main character and her interactions with her husband show that he is in fact “feminist” in a way. In Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” the main character Aylmer is married to a beautiful woman named Georgiana who wasContinue reading “Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” and Nina Baym”

In Emerson’s  Nature, the section describing the “transparent eye-ball” I think is describing a moment Emerson experienced where he witnessed a beautiful sight of physical nature. One of his first comments states that “all mean egotism vanishes”. I think this comment is talking about how humbling nature can be, reminding you of how small andContinue reading “Emerson- The Transparent Eye-Ball”