THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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or records ____ Bessie, bop, or Bach
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Me ____ Who?
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It’s not easy to know what is true for you or me.
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I feel and see and hear, Harlem, I hear you.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The metaphor builds you up towards his main idea of race and equality by saying that they are all one and the same. The personification shows that he feels connected to the whole town and community and that he does not just connect with the colored part of the community.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Theme for B English’ contains both irony and alliteration to emphasize the speaker’s challenges with the writing assignment. The irony highlights how as the only African-American student, he feels as an outsider to the class, and he does not want to lose his connection to Harlem.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -“Theme for English B” is written in free verse-it stays the track of no one rhythmic pattern; it has no regular rhyme scheme. It does, however, establish patterns. The instructor’s homework assignment, for instance, is in an aabb rhyme pattern.