THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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“dewy dawns”; “mystical blue skies”
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“eyes grow dim”; “wave of longing”
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“hungry for the old, familiar ways”; “bowed my head and wept.”
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all the other answers are correct
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is the tone of ‘The Tropics in New York? ‘ The tone is one of longing and sorrow. The speaker spends part of the poem engaged in me moires of the past, but they only bring him tears at the end.
Detailed explanation-2: -“The Tropics in New York” Themes The poem suggests that homesickness can be a force as urgent and fundamental as hunger. The sight of a pile of tropical fruits in a New York store window stops the speaker short: every one of these fruits reminds the speaker of their faraway home.
Detailed explanation-3: -Claude McKay uses metaphors to convey a sense of sadness and nostalgia in “The Tropics of New York.” In this case, metaphor is a literary device in which the poet compares a physical thing to an emotion or feeling. McKay uses three key metaphors in “The Tropics in New York”: tropics, window, and hunger.
Detailed explanation-4: -Claude McCkay’s poem The Tropics in New York uses the sonnet form to tell the feelings of nostalgia the speaker has for what he feels is normality, a feeling of home. McKay was born in Jamaica and lived there until his early twenties.