USA HISTORY

THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929

ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
What does the speaker in The Tropics in New York long for?
A
New York summer fruit
B
a day at a parish fair
C
memories of New York
D
his home in the tropics
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He “longs” for his home that is less complicated, less busy, less hectic than the American world he now lives in. American ways are “unfamiliar” and foreign to him, and he wants that feeling of belonging.

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: -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-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.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.

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