Our Modernism pieces were similar. The poem that I read, Chicago, also had culture shock in it. Chicago was boasting the big city and explaining how it held up the country. Charles Sandburg wrote about how great the people in Chicago were and how it drew in people with its vivid atmosphere. There was a lot of emotion in the poem I read, but it had a more boasting attitude than "When the Negro was in Vogue." They both fit well into the Modernism time period.
Good use of history and background of your poem. This makes the understanding of the poem a lot easier. I liked your example of experimentation in the poem because that was a very key point in Modernism. Great job!
The discrimination factor was a constant in both your Langston Hughes story and my Langston Hughes poem. The culture shock theme was not a theme in my poem, but is a Modernism characteristic. Your examples and explanation of culture shock was very informative and compared with Modernism very well.
Our poems are very different in themes as well as the whole idea of the poems. I agree with Kirsten that the way you explained history helped a lot with understanding the poem. Also, you said that your poem had culture shock, which is different than what is in mine. You did a great job connecting your poem to the modernism time period!
The whole sense of the individual that comes out in your poem comes out as well in mine. I think that in mine they use individual as well as the negros as a whole group, which is obvious in yours. They exemplify them as starting a new generation, the Harlem Renaissance.
While your poem had a lot of culture and it was full of history (which was very interesting) and also spoke a lot of the Harlem Renaissance which was a big part in history for the African Americans during that time, my poem Anyone Who Lived in a Pretty How Town held little culture or history. My poem spoke more of a story and of life that happened in a little town. The people of the town grew up and would get married and then they would die and the world would keep turning and the seasons still change and the moon and stars still come out. I felt that the history behind the writing makes it interesting and also ties up many loose ends if you didn't quite understand the poem.
Langston Hughes really liked to write about the racial side of the things he saw, but the author of The Tropics in New York did not seem to. Even though he was originally from Jamaica, he only mentions that he is homesick in his poem, not pointing out that he is an African American writer in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance. I feel that that is a significant difference between the styles of the two poets.
My story did not really deal with any of the same Modernist themes as yours. There was not discrimination, a culture shock, or anything related to the Harlem Renaissance. It was just a rich person being dissatisfied with the way his life turned out.
Our literary works did not really have any similarities. Yours is much more about culture and the civilization as where mine was about a relationship between two people that was foul. I really liked how you tied in the history with your poem. The culture shock has to do with psychology and sociology which is what really jumps out to me in this piece because both of those topics were becoming famous and important at that time.
Our literary works were similar because they both had a positive overall theme. They both show life through a new aspect, but yours was more extreme. The differences between our poems is that yours was really a movement where mine was just really looking at life through a new view. The thing that stood out to me was the title of the poem, I think it really explains it all and shows what a significance it would be.
Our Modernism works were very similar. Yours focused on the Harlem Renaissance. Mine also focused on the Civil Rights movements and they were similar in that aspect. The whole importance of the individual was present in both of our pieces. It stood out to me that your story had the element of culture shock. This was an element of Modernism because they focused on the differences of the people in society.
There were not many similarities between our poems. Mine was more about the world and life and how all things are relative is related to it. The thing that stood out was the history behind it and how modernism doesn't state it, but still involves it.
Our poems weren't very similar because my poem just talks about pears. It describes them the entire time and doesn't talk about the culture of the time period at all, as yours only talks about that. You did a great job!
Our stories were very different. Mine did not talk about history in it at all. Mine just talked about a woman losing her home and didn't really talk about any events that were going on in that time period.
Our works were very different. Mine was just a story to pass the time, and your story talked more about history. I found it really interesting that even the white people were interested in the Harlem Renaissance and what was happening during that period.
The thing that stuck out to me was that how the Modernism period exemplified so many things during its time period. Like the wars, Harlem Renaissance, etc. My story was quite different from yours because mine didn't have a lot of history in it.
The thing that stuck out to me was how you gave background information on the poem. Our works were different from each other because mine did not have anything to do with the Harlem Renaissance.
The works of literature that we analyzed were very different in format. Mine was a poem, and yours was a story. Yours had much background information and details, whereas mine did not. Despite those differences, our literary works were actually quite similar. They were both about racism, and the black man overcoming prejudice opinions and taking matters into their own hands.
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ReplyDeleteOur Modernism pieces were similar. The poem that I read, Chicago, also had culture shock in it. Chicago was boasting the big city and explaining how it held up the country. Charles Sandburg wrote about how great the people in Chicago were and how it drew in people with its vivid atmosphere. There was a lot of emotion in the poem I read, but it had a more boasting attitude than "When the Negro was in Vogue." They both fit well into the Modernism time period.
ReplyDeleteGood use of history and background of your poem. This makes the understanding of the poem a lot easier. I liked your example of experimentation in the poem because that was a very key point in Modernism. Great job!
ReplyDeleteThe discrimination factor was a constant in both your Langston Hughes story and my Langston Hughes poem. The culture shock theme was not a theme in my poem, but is a Modernism characteristic. Your examples and explanation of culture shock was very informative and compared with Modernism very well.
ReplyDeleteOur poems are very different in themes as well as the whole idea of the poems. I agree with Kirsten that the way you explained history helped a lot with understanding the poem. Also, you said that your poem had culture shock, which is different than what is in mine. You did a great job connecting your poem to the modernism time period!
ReplyDeleteThe whole sense of the individual that comes out in your poem comes out as well in mine. I think that in mine they use individual as well as the negros as a whole group, which is obvious in yours. They exemplify them as starting a new generation, the Harlem Renaissance.
ReplyDeleteWhile your poem had a lot of culture and it was full of history (which was very interesting) and also spoke a lot of the Harlem Renaissance which was a big part in history for the African Americans during that time, my poem Anyone Who Lived in a Pretty How Town held little culture or history. My poem spoke more of a story and of life that happened in a little town. The people of the town grew up and would get married and then they would die and the world would keep turning and the seasons still change and the moon and stars still come out. I felt that the history behind the writing makes it interesting and also ties up many loose ends if you didn't quite understand the poem.
ReplyDeleteLangston Hughes really liked to write about the racial side of the things he saw, but the author of The Tropics in New York did not seem to. Even though he was originally from Jamaica, he only mentions that he is homesick in his poem, not pointing out that he is an African American writer in the middle of the Harlem Renaissance. I feel that that is a significant difference between the styles of the two poets.
ReplyDeleteMy story did not really deal with any of the same Modernist themes as yours. There was not discrimination, a culture shock, or anything related to the Harlem Renaissance. It was just a rich person being dissatisfied with the way his life turned out.
ReplyDeleteOur literary works did not really have any similarities. Yours is much more about culture and the civilization as where mine was about a relationship between two people that was foul. I really liked how you tied in the history with your poem. The culture shock has to do with psychology and sociology which is what really jumps out to me in this piece because both of those topics were becoming famous and important at that time.
ReplyDeleteOur literary works were similar because they both had a positive overall theme. They both show life through a new aspect, but yours was more extreme. The differences between our poems is that yours was really a movement where mine was just really looking at life through a new view. The thing that stood out to me was the title of the poem, I think it really explains it all and shows what a significance it would be.
ReplyDeleteOur Modernism works were very similar. Yours focused on the Harlem Renaissance. Mine also focused on the Civil Rights movements and they were similar in that aspect. The whole importance of the individual was present in both of our pieces. It stood out to me that your story had the element of culture shock. This was an element of Modernism because they focused on the differences of the people in society.
ReplyDeleteThere were not many similarities between our poems. Mine was more about the world and life and how all things are relative is related to it. The thing that stood out was the history behind it and how modernism doesn't state it, but still involves it.
ReplyDeleteOur poems weren't very similar because my poem just talks about pears. It describes them the entire time and doesn't talk about the culture of the time period at all, as yours only talks about that. You did a great job!
ReplyDeleteOur stories were very different. Mine did not talk about history in it at all. Mine just talked about a woman losing her home and didn't really talk about any events that were going on in that time period.
ReplyDeleteI like how you talked about the plight of the African Americans with the cotton clubs and stuff.
ReplyDeleteOur works were very different. Mine was just a story to pass the time, and your story talked more about history. I found it really interesting that even the white people were interested in the Harlem Renaissance and what was happening during that period.
ReplyDeleteThe thing that stuck out to me was that how the Modernism period exemplified so many things during its time period. Like the wars, Harlem Renaissance, etc. My story was quite different from yours because mine didn't have a lot of history in it.
ReplyDeleteThe thing that stuck out to me was how you gave background information on the poem. Our works were different from each other because mine did not have anything to do with the Harlem Renaissance.
ReplyDeleteThe works of literature that we analyzed were very different in format. Mine was a poem, and yours was a story. Yours had much background information and details, whereas mine did not. Despite those differences, our literary works were actually quite similar. They were both about racism, and the black man overcoming prejudice opinions and taking matters into their own hands.
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