USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

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“Go home and write a page tonight. And let that page come out of you-Then, it will be true.” The word “true” in line #5 in Theme for English B most likely means:
A
general fact
B
without plagiarism
C
without any extra details
D
truly personal and significant
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -This isn’t just any page, but a page that’s supposed to come out of “you, ” or, the student. This means that whatever the page is, it’s supposed to reflect something deep about who the writer is. The topic seems to be wide open, though.

Detailed explanation-2: -Race, Identity, and Belonging. “Theme for English B” is a poem about the complexities of identity in a racist society. Its speaker-a black student at Columbia University in the 1950s-receives an apparently straightforward assignment: to write one page about himself.

Detailed explanation-3: -”Theme for English B” was a poem written by Langston Hughes in 1951, during the Harlem Renaissance and at the cusp of the Civil Rights Movement.

Detailed explanation-4: -The text focuses on six major themes often found in canonical English poetry. These include religion, nature, classics, romance, individual struggle, and politics.

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