THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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what the poem is truly about
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another name for a piece of writing in general
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what the poem relates to
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none 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: -It delves into themes of identity and race through the depiction of a black man’s writing assignment. Within ‘Theme for English B, ’ Hughes creates a young, twenty-two-year-old narrator who speaks about his own experience as a black man in a primarily white community.
Detailed explanation-3: -In the case of ‘Theme for English B, ’ the mood might be described as insightful, as the young student Hughes is reflecting on the situation and attempting to make sense of his mixed emotions.
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.