Harlem Renaissance langston hughes

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Harlem Renaissance & Langston Hughes

Road map 

• The Harlem Renaissance 
• 'The Weary Blues' - Langston Hughes

The Lakes - Taylor Swift

Is it romantic how all my elegies eulogize me?

I'm not cut out for all these cynical clones

These hunters with cell phones

Take me to the lakes where all the poets went to die

I don't belong, and my beloved, neither do you

Those Windermere peaks look like a perfect place to cry

I'm setting off, but not without my muse

Lesson focus 

After this series of lessons you:

• can describe what the Harlem Renaissance is
• how it came about
• name its main proponents
• understand the poem 'The Weary Blues' by Langston Hughes
• recognise and discuss the poem's main literary features

Harlem Renaissance

• American Civil War 1861 - 1865

• Jim Crow Laws

• Move to the North: Chicago, Detroit, NY, LA, Cleveland

• Harlem: most influential in cultural expression - singing/ dancing, painting, writing

Harlem Renaissance

'spiritual coming of age' 

Louis Armstrong

Josephine Baker 

Count Basie

Aaron Douglas

Zora Neale Hurston

Langston Hughes

Langston Hughes

1901 - 1967

What stands out to you?

The Weary Blues

1924/5

Free verse - 

Nonmetrical, nonrhyming lines that closely follow the natural rhythms of speech. A regular pattern of sound or rhythm may emerge in free-verse lines, but the poet does not adhere to a metrical plan in their composition. 

 

The Weary Blues

1925

Literary devices?

Definitions on LessonUp!

Alliteration

Usually, the repetion of the first consonant through a sequence of words.

Example: 

'While I nodded, nearly napping'

Edgar Allen Poe - 'The Raven'

Assonance

The repetition of vowel sounds in a sequence of words with different endings.

Example:

'His tender heir might bear his memory'

Shakespeare - 'Sonnet 1'

Onomatopoeia

a sound device in which the words used imitate the sounds they are describing

Personification

the description of an object or an idea as if it had human characteristics

Rhyme

repetition of the terminal sounds of a word 

end rhyme: last words of two or more sentences rhyme

internal rhyme: a word within a line rhymes with another word in the same or following line. 

eye rhyme: the words don't rhyme actually but they look like they do. 

slant rhyme/near rhyme: only the final consonant sounds rhyme but the vowels do not or vice versa. 

Naturalism

showing people and experiences as they really are, instead of suggesting that they are better than they really are or representing them in a fixed style

Do 

• Describe your thoughts and experiences while reading the work. Please explain.
• In what way do you relate to this work? Please explain.
  
• Please give your favourite part/quote/frame and, again, explain your choice.
  

Ready? Work on the other assignments. 

Ready? Check the short story writing assignment.