Poems of the Harlem Renaissance
Part 1: Guiding Questions
1. Author Information: How are these poets similar? How are they different? What was each writer's view on race.
-The poets is similar by the time they were written and it was all about racism. The different is what influence each writer to come up with the poets. Jean Toomer view on race is that color doesn't matter and we are all equal. Countee Cullen view on race is he use poetry as a tool to break down racial barriers. Arna Bontemps view on race is about justice.
"Song of the son" by Jean Troomer
2. Lines 1-5: What aspects of the first stanza reflect the fact that this poem is called a
"song" in it's title.
-It is call a song because of how line 3 and 4 are written the same as a chorus part in the song.
3. Lines 9-10: How are lines 9 and 10 different? What is the impact on meaning of the author's choice?
-On line 9 he said that he would be back and in line 10 he had return back as what he said, he was back before it would be too late.
4. Lines 16-23: What metaphor is in these lines? Explain it's meaning. What is being compared to what?
-The metaphor in this line is "O Negro slaves" and the meaning is referred to color people who was slave in that time. Color people was being compared with plums because of the color of the plum and the color people are dark purple.
"From the dark Tower" by Countee Cullen
5.Lines 1-8: Explain what problem is presented in this octave.
-in this octave the problem that is presented is having an unequal system, the difference of color people and non-color people.
6. Lines 9-14: How does the sestet resolve the problem introduced in the octave?
-What resolve the problem is their heart, they gave time to their self a night to think of their self and to motivate their self.
7. Lines 1-14: Compare Cullen's poem to "Song of the Son" by Toomer.
-Comparing the two story together make me notice that they have some point that's similar on how they both compared color people with the color of plum of how they suffered and the inequality that happen to them.
"A Black Man Talks of Reaping" by Arna Bomps
8. lines 1-8: What injustice is Bontempts Discussing via the metaphor of sowing and reaping?
-The metaphor for sowing is"I planted safe against this stark, lean year" and reaping s "But for my reaping only what the hand".
9. Lines 9-12: Compare what the speakers in "From the Dark Tower" and "A Black Ma Talks of Reaping" say about who will reap the benefit of the seeds sown.
-Both of the poets shown that their would be a person who will get a benefit from reaping them which they referred as the non-color people who use them as slave use the slave goods for their goods.
Part 3: Analyzing the text
1. Summarize What is the speaker describing-both literally and figuratively-in "Song on the Son"? How do the poem's ideas and images express one or more themes on the topic of African American history?
-The speaker use both in this line "O Negro slaves, dark purple ripened plums".It describe by telling what the slave been through and of the journal of them emigrating.
2. Infer Who is the speaker in "Song of the Son"? In the context of African American culture, what does he represent to the poet?
-The speaker in the poet is a dad that is part of the culture as he came back for his son and as referred to a song that part of their culture is dance, sing and celebrate.
3. Analyze in "From the Dark Tower", what does the phrase "golden increment of bursting fruit" suggest.
-The phrase suggest as the increase of colored slavery that's keep on rising non stop.
4. Analyze "From the Dark Tower" is written in the form of a Petrarchan sonnet, in which octave, or first eight lines, presents a problem or challenge, and the final six lines, the sestet, resolves or comments on the problem. How does Cullen apply this structure to express his message?
-The octave is as the one day of slavery what do they have to do what they gotten through all the problems and issue that happen in their living as a slave. The sestet is as how they feel at the end of the day how painful it is but the can do anything but just to hide in the dark with all of their pain keep it with theirselve.
5. Infer In "a Black Man Talks of Reaping", what does the speaker mean when he says "My brothers's sons are gathering stalk and root"? Who is the brother? What is the "bitter fruit" at the end of the poem?
-The brother son is considered as the owner of the slave that collect every good from the slave. The bitter fruit is compared as how hard their life was as a slave even a sweet fruit can be bitter because of their situation as a slave that suffered a lot.
6. Identify An extended metaphor is a metaphor that is developed over many lines. Identify an example of extended metaphor in each poem.
-Song of the son metaphor is compared with plum because of the dark color and how hard their life was as a squeezed plum at the pine tree. From the darker tower metaphor is use as to compare the dark night to them of how quiet it is at night compared with their pain that even it's painful but all they can do is just quiet. A Black Man Talks of Reaping metaphor is as hoe salve were treated as if they were a plants that the owner can do anything to it leave it to die or reap it to eat either way the plant still lose as they were treated bitterly as even the fruit is the sweetest in the world but it would would be bitter from what it have been through.
7. Cite Evidence How does Toomer's use of repetition -of both lines and important ideas- contribute to the aesthetic impact of"Song of the Son"?
-It gave the true feeling of how the author feel is like when you got through so much that you can say anything but just one sentence and I thin that's what the author think. The one sentence that shows the feeling of what really happen to the slave.
8. Compare How do Toomer and Cullen use the metaphor of night and darkness to support the themes and ideas they want to express?
-They use it to show that the only time that slaves have for themselves is at night that they got to heal their self from the tried-ring day that they went through.
9. Synthesize How would you describe the tone of each poem?
-Song of the son despair, From the dark tower painful, and a black man talks of reaping disappoint.
10. Compare in what ways might these poems represents different aspects or strains of the Harlem Renaissance? Consider formal, topical, and thematic elements in all three poems.
-The different of each poem is what they are trying to referred to and the point of view from the different speaker, Song of the son is speak by a father to his son and to the family of what they are facing. From the dark towel is speak by the omniscient describing the emotion of the character from the view of the omniscient. A black man talks if reaping is speak by the first person as he describe hoe he feel to be slave how he feel to see his family having a hard time.
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