LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MODERN POETRY AND POETICS
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These lines evoke Christian imagery to emphasize the dignity of the girl who died.
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These lines evoke Christian imagery to suggest that death erases racial divisions.
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These lines present the problem of racial prejudice in an ironic mode.
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Both A and B
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Black Christ was a collection of poems published at the height of Cullen’s career in 1929. The poems examine the relationship of faith and justice among African Americans. In some of the poems, Cullen equates the suffering of Christ in his crucifixion and the suffering of African Americans.
Detailed explanation-2: -Cullen was soon after published in Harper’s, the Century Magazine, and Poetry. He won several awards for his poem, “Ballad of the Brown Girl, ” and graduated from New York University in 1925.
Detailed explanation-3: -Countee Cullen (1903–1946) was one of the leading African American poets of the Harlem Renaissance. Color by Countee Cullen, 1925. After finishing college at New York University and beginning a master’s degree at Harvard, Cullen published his first volume of poetry, Color.