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| William Dean Howells, a pro realist writing against novels like The Awakening |
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| The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock |
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| Edited the Wasteland by T.S. Elliot |
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| Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian |
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Spring
Poem about Nature, spring, twigs, beauty, smell of the earth, no death, maggots empty cup, april, idiots |
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I shall forget you presently my dear
Poem about time, forgetting, dying, moving away longer lived |
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I being born a woman and distressed
Poem about person fair, zest clarify the pulse and cloud the mind "my scorn with pity" |
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I will put chaos into 14 lines
Actually wrote 14 of fire, demon strain, rape, duress arrogance, awful |
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By the road to the contagious hospital
Has nothing to do with the hospital itself, is very descriptive very sensory: cold wind, brown dried weeds, reddish purplish twiggy bushes. |
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So Much Depends/ The Red Wheelbarrow
Its about a red wheelbarrow next to some chickens |
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This is just to say
* you would recognize this* |
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Daddy
Written in stanzas of 5 (daddy is a word with 5 letters) |
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Lady Lazarus
Written in stanzas of 3 (Lazarus has 3 syllables) |
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Child
shortest poem, no German references, no holocaust references, just very descriptive, very sensory |
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| The Negro Poet and the Racial Mountain |
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The Negro Speaks of Rivers
* you would never guess this but its all about rivers!* |
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The Weary Blues
* Its about...you guessed it...the blues!* |
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| Half and Half/ The Joy Luck Club |
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| Name a/the Literary Realists |
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| Name a/the Modernist Poets |
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| T.S. Eliot and William Carlos Williams |
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| when one sense is connected to an other unrelated sense, such as seeing mad, or feeling the color blue, loud shirt, bitter wind. |
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| Ezra Pound's comment about Modernism |
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| "In or about December 1910 human nature changed" |
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| Virginia Woolf's comment about the modern writer's fervent desire to break with the past, rejecting literary traditions that seemed outmoded and diction that seemed too genteel to suit an era of technological breakthroughs and global violence. This was the time of the automobile and airplane |
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| Name a/the Immigrant Writers |
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| Sui Sin Far, Zitkala Sa, and Abraham Cahan |
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| dividing reservation lands into privately owned parcels, legislators hoped to complete the assimilation process by forcing the deterioration of the communal life-style of the Native societies and imposing Western-oriented values of strengthening the nuclear family and values of economic dependency strictly within this small household unit |
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"Unguarded Gates"
* Adresses the statue of Liberty and questions immigration, he is not in support of it" |
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| White Anglo Americans opposed to Immigration on cultural, economic and religious grounds |
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| Indian Boarding School Movement |
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| The reservation school movement was "invented" by the descendants of those who rode the Manifest Destiny band wagon. Educating Indians was the refinement of the times, a continuation of the process, its effort was to confine Indians to sedentary life and open more land for use by whites. |
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| Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 |
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| The Act excluded Chinese "skilled and unskilled laborers and Chinese employed in mining" from entering the country for ten years under penalty of imprisonment and deportation |
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| Name a/the Confessional School Writers |
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| Name a/the Harlem Renaissance Writers |
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| Langston Hughes and Alain Locke |
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| Name a/the Modernist Fiction Writers |
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| Ernest Hemingway and Faulkner |
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| Gertrude Stein would take this phrase and use it to describe the people of the 1920's who rejected American post World War I values. The three best known writers among The Lost Generation are F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner |
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| The meaning of a piece is not immediately evident, because the crux of the story lies below the surface, just as most of the mass of a real iceberg similarly lies beneath the surface |
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| is a fictional county created by the American author William Faulkner as a setting for many of his novels. |
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| a narrative mode that seeks to portray an individual's point of view by giving the written equivalent of the character's thought processes, either in a loose interior monologue, or in connection to his or her actions. |
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| Atlanta Exposition Address |
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| that ridiculous Uncle Tom address Booker T Washington gave in 1895 he endorsed segregation and thought blacks should just work as a laboring class and nothing more |
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| Name a/the author(s) that considered themselves as "Between Two Cultures" |
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| Li-Young Lee, Amy Tan and technically Sui Sin Far |
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| Enjambment or enjambement is the breaking of a syntactic unit (a phrase, clause, or sentence) by the end of a line or between two verses. It is to be contrasted with end-stopping, where each linguistic unit corresponds with a single line, and caesura, in which the linguistic unit ends mid-line. |
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