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| Author and Publication date of "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock:" |
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| Author and Publication date of "Tradition and the Individiual Talent" |
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| Author and Publication date of "The Figure a Poem Makes" |
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| Author and Pub. Date of "Introduction to the Wedge" |
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William Carlos Willams,
1944 |
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| Author and Pub. Date. of "O Black and Unknown Bards," |
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James Weldon Johnson
1908 |
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| Author and Pub. Date of "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain," |
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| Author and Pub. Date of "When the Negro Was in Vogue," |
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| Author and Pub. Date of "The Negro-Art Hokum," |
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| Author and Pub. Date of "Hills Like White Elephants," |
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| The Anxiety of Authorship |
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| Modeling after Bloom's "Anxiety of Influence," Susana Gilbert and Susan Gubar say that though male writers struggle to find their own voice, female writers struggle to have a voice at all. Instead of competing with their precurser, female precursers help female authors gain their voice. |
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| The Harlem Renaissance and time period |
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The development and flowering of African-American art, literature, music, and culture in the United States, based in Harlem, New York City after World War I
1918-1929 |
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| Harlem as "Race Capital," |
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| The idea that Harlem is the center for the flowering of African-American Art as well as the home for hundreds of African-American artists and authors. |
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| The "Negro-Art" Hokum, and Author |
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George Schuyler
The idea that there is no such thing as "African-american art," or, that there is no difference between African American Art and Caucasian Art. Shuyler thinks the defining quality of artworks between culture relies on region/location rather than color. |
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| "The Racial Mountain," and Author |
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Langston Hughes
The idea that blacks must "climb over" the issue of their culture seeming second-class or inferior compared to whites. |
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| Qualities of "The Harlem Reniassance" (4) |
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1.) Not a Sepratist or Assimilationist movement, but an Integrationist
2.) Optomistic and Progressive
3.) It had to be "Aquired" by blacks
4.) There was lots of debate in the movement
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| Modernist qualities of "Prufrock:" |
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1.) Fragmentation of Form
2.) Tendency to communicate feeling subtley, through imagrey/form, etc.
3.) Psychological Focus - Post Freud Poem
4.) Projecting World View on to Nature (like frost)
5.) Paratactical Organization
6.) Elliot Supresses Transitions
7.) HIghly self-conscious/unsure
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| Qualities of "Tradition and the Individual Talent" |
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1.) Novelty is better than Repetition- Tradition is Non-repetitive.
2.) Works must involve not only its past but its presence.
3.) We should take an aesthetic value of artworks
4.) "if the public assesses the poet in the context of poetry’s history, the poet would be foolish to ignore that context." |
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| "The Unknown Bard;" author: |
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James Weldon Johnson,
slaves who remain anymonus because of their slavery, such as the writers of works or slave songs. |
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| Quality of Hughe's work: (4) |
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1.) Much like WCW
2.) Free Verse
3.) Spoken/Oral - "I've"
4.) "Scat" singing - Jazz/Blues
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| Qualities of Cullen's Work: (4) |
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1.) Like T.S Eliot
2.) Regular Meter
3.) Uses Rhyme Scheme
4.) "Written" Syntax and Tone
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| "When the Negro Was in Vogue," meaning |
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| When black culture was exploited, or when it became a fad, blacks were implicit. |
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| Title and author of work talking of a funeral in comparison of how a funeral should be held: |
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William Carlos Williams
"Tract" |
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| Taking ancient literature (Greek, Roman, Japanese, Etc) and "revising" it to bring new meaning. |
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| Name and author of the revisioning of a Greek tragedy in which the main character loses his lover to the underworld after looking back at her in a moment of doubt. |
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| Name and author of the work representing a tree as a phallic symbol, mainly to represent the dominance of males in poetry. |
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| Author and Artist of work based on a chamelon's abilities and qualities. |
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"To a Chameleon"
Marianne Moore
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| Author and artist of the work based on an ant-eater. |
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"The Pangolin"
Marianne Moore |
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| Author and Artist of the work alluding to works of precluding female artists in comparision to finding her own voice. |
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| "The Sisters", Amy Lowell |
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| Author and Pub. Date of "The New Negro," |
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