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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a. that he has many things to teach his teacher
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b. that his teacher couldn’t ever really understand what his life is really like
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that older people are sometimes wrong
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all of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Of course, the poem talks about themes like truth and freedom and race, and the word “theme” in the title could refer to the overall feeling and pattern of thoughts that the class touches on.
Detailed explanation-3: -“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.
Detailed explanation-4: -Stream of consciousness is a style of writing wherein the writing itself mimics the free-flowing thoughts and feelings experienced by a person. The thoughts and feelings come in a continuous flow. Langston Hughes uses this approach in “Theme for English B” in order to add depth and authenticity to his speaker.