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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universal.
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uncommon.
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unavoidable.
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impossible to share.
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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: -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”.
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: -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.