THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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an arrow.
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a “little tent.”
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a sharp blade.
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the mixing of the “sea and river.”
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Detailed explanation-1: -Any Human to Another allows readers to feel the importance of sharing in one another’s joy and sorrow. However, the definite emphasis is placed on the sharing of grief and burdens, which reveals the author believes that sharing in one another’s grief and sorrow is an essential part of being human.
Detailed explanation-2: -The poem recalls a childhood “incident” in which the speaker’s life is forever altered when another child uses a racist slur against him in public. The poem’s carefree beginning contrasts with the sudden, horrific reality of this moment, which intrudes on the speaker’s otherwise happy memory of this time in his life.
Detailed explanation-3: -In poems such as “Heritage“ and “Atlantic City Waiter, ” Cullen reflects the urge to reclaim African arts-a movement called Négritude that was one of the motifs of the Harlem Renaissance.
Detailed explanation-4: -Stanza Four Lewis, again, the speaker makes a distinction between humans and angels in the fourth stanza. While an angel may be able to “see the form of air” only a human can breathe it in and “drink the whole summer down into the breast”.