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Analysis Of For A Lady I Know By Countee Cullen

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Part 1 As I looked through Drop Me Off in Harlem, I gathered that the Harlem Renaissance was the era where African Americans actually had a reason to take pride and rejoice in their identity for the first time ever. Harlem was where they found something that was distinctively theirs. African-American literature, art, music, and notions were venerated and recognized everywhere in America. It was this era where big names such as Aaron Douglas, Duke Ellington, Evelyn Preer, George Snowden, Claude Mckay, and W.E.B. Dubois came alive. Before this era, African Americans were seen as servile, unqualified, unskillful and only seen as a laborer. After years of hardship through imprisonment and domination by white Americans, African Americans began to assimilate to express their strong notions of racial pride and self-identity. Part 2 For Claude Mckay, my favorite work of his would have to be I Know My Soul. The sonnets important discussion of being honest with ourselves and put forth effort in order to be completely happy with ourselves is very good advice. The way Mckay uses metaphors and imagery to create an evocative scene in the readers mind shows how Mckay has an immense amount of creativity and a way with words. …show more content…

This poem reflects the superiority and ignorance complex of the time by taking a woman of the higher class and shows how she believes that even in Heaven, there will be servants. All of the luxury’s she has on Earth, she believes will also follow her to Heaven. From a religious point of view, I think this poem is comical. Without getting too biblical on everyone, as a Christian, I know that God created everyone equally and the woman’s thoughts will not be what I can expect to see. This poem does a great job at capturing the ignorance that we, as humans, can have the and crazy thoughts that run through our

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