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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wants to build a garden
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misses family members
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misses familiar ways
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is going blind
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why does the speaker in “The Tropics in New York” weep at the end of the poem? He is overwhelmed with nostalgia for a home of his past. What is the theme of Countee Cullen’s poem “Any Human to Another"? Humanity is connected through its sorrows.
Detailed explanation-2: -The speaker in “The Tropics in New York” expresses an intense homesickness. Seeing tropical fruit piled in a store window in New York, the speaker is overcome by memories of their own tropical home-and a longing for its beauty and familiarity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mckay can probably be seen as the speaker in this poem and it most probably tells of McKay’s experience of homesickness. The first stanza of the sonnet has a light tone that is describing the tropical fruits in a market, presumably, because of the title, in New York.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is the meaning of the poem ‘The Tropics in New York? ‘ The meaning is that even the simplest things can remind one of home and bring on deep emotions. The speaker experiences this when he sees the exotic fruit in New York.