Review the description of various literary movements, their characteristics and examples (see attached). Note that some poems both employ poetic form and belong to a specific movement. Some poems, particularly free-verse adhere no such rules but may be very characteristic of a movement.
Choose a primary source (see list below and in attached) and describe how it illustrates the characteristics of a specific movement. Are the poem’s themes consistent with the characteristics of the movement? Are they unique?
Primary Source:
African American Poetry and The Harlem Renaissance
• “We Real Cool” Gwendolyn Brooks
• “Theology” – Paul Laurence Dunbar
• “Sympathy” -Paul Laurence Dunbar
• “Let America Be America Again” - Langston Hughes
• “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” - Langston Hughes
• “Cross” - Langston Hughes
• “Dream Boogie” - Langston Hughes
• “Yet Do I Marvel” - Claude McKay
• “If We Must Die” - Countee Cullen
• “I Am a Black Woman” – Mari Evans
Modernism
• “Dulce et Decorum Est” - Wilfred Owen
• “The Second Coming” - William Butler Yeats
• “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” - Robert Frost
• “Mending Wall” - Robert Frost
• “Design” - Robert Frost
• “Birches” - Robert Frost
• “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” - Wallace Stevens
• “The Emperor of Ice Cream” - Wallace Stevens
• “Poem” - William Carlos Williams
• “The Red Wheelbarrow” - William Carlos Williams
• “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” – T.S. Eliot
• “Preludes” – T.S. Eliot
• “In a Station of the Metro” – Ezra Pound
Lyrics and Music in Poetry
• “A Hard Rain’s a Gonna Fall” – Bob Dylan
• “The Ballad of Hollis Brown” – by Bob Dylan, Sung by Nina Simone
• “A Boy Named Sue” – Shel Silverstein, Sung by Johnny Cash
• “War” – Bob Marley (oratory set to music)
• “Strange Fruit” – sung by Billie Holliday
• “Coyote” – Joni Mitchell
• “Changes” – Tupac Shakur (Profanity warning)
• “My Papa’s Waltz” – Theodore Roethke poem (set in waltz time )
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