Analysis Of The Poem Sonnet And The Negro Harlem ...

Unit 3: Short Answer Response Danticat s Krik? Krak! best emulates the poem Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem by Helene Johnson. Danticat’s work shows a Haitian immigrant following her mother around New York and observing her behaviors and activities while Johnson’s tells the story of a black man walking down the streets with a narrator talking about his features. While these two works seem unrelated at first glance they both share common themes, for example: â€Å"My mother keeps on walking as though she owns the sidewalk under her feet† (pg 954). This sentiment of arrogant ownership is reflected in line 1-2 of Sonnet to a Negro in Harlem: â€Å"You are disdainful and magnificent--your perfect body and your pompous gait†¦Ã¢â‚¬  while certainly the mother isn’t particularly â€Å"disdainful† or â€Å"pompous† she stills walks with an air of pride and ownership similar to that displayed in the poem. The appearance of the two subjects in the c rowds that they are in is similar also: â€Å"Small wonder that you are incompetent to imitate those whom you so despise--your shoulders towering high above the throng†¦(line 4-6). Suzette’s mother is shown as this as well although far less magnificently: â€Å"Even in a flowered dress, she is lost in a sea of pinstripes and gray suits† (pg 953). While Danticat says that the mother’s brilliance is lost among the dark clothes she does not say that the mother â€Å"blends in†, just like Johnson’s Negro Suzette’s mother is incapable of looking or dressing like those she lives amongstShow MoreRelatedA Comparison Between The Flower Of Love And Jasmines Poems Essay1979 Words   |  8 Pageshence different moods in the context of his poems. The aim of this essay is to make the comparison between the Flower of Love and Jasmines poems written under the Harlem of Shadows collection during the Harlem Renaissance period. In doing the comparison, the poem will making an analysis of the context or setting that influenced the message in the poems, and the classification of the poems and how the title of the poems relate to what the speaker in the sonnet is trying to communicate. Further, I willRead More The Harlem Renaissance Essay1513 Words   |  7 PagesThe Harlem Renaissance      Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚   Chapter 1 Introduction   Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Ã‚  Harlem Renaissance, an African American cultural movement of the 1920s and early 1930s that was centered in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. According to Wintz: The Harlem Renaissance was â€Å"variously known as the New Negro movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance, the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then withered in the mid-1930sRead MoreBrief Summary of the Harlem Renaissance.1863 Words   |  8 PagesHarlem Renaissance Variously known as the New Negro movement, the New Negro Renaissance, and the Negro Renaissance, the movement emerged toward the end of World War I in 1918, blossomed in the mid- to late 1920s, and then faded in the mid-1930s. The Harlem Renaissance marked the first time that mainstream publishers and critics took African American literature seriously and that African American literature and arts attracted significant attention from the nation at large. Although it was primarily