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Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Futurism-celebrated speed, machinery, violence, and youth
Glorification of war
Misogyny |
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Mina Loy
Response to Marinetti's misogynistic manifesto
Men and women are enemies, not equals
Women need to be desexualized and unlovable to attain power |
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Dislikes poetry, but it serves a purpose
Poetry is a matter of skill and honesty, no matter the form
There are some things in nature man cannot understand |
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| Robert Frost-"The Road Not Taken" |
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Making difficult decisions in life
Two roads are actually nearly identical
Regret |
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| Wallace Stevens-"The Emperor of Ice Cream" |
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Festivities at a woman's funeral
Seize the day |
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| William Carlos Williams-"The Red Wheelbarrow" |
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| Ezra Pound-"In a Station of the Metro" |
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Imagism
14 words
Economy of language, precision of imagery
Faces in the crowd=Petals on a bough |
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| T.S. Eliot-"The Love Song of J. Edward Prufrock" |
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Tortured psyche of the modern man
Emotional distance from the world
Potential lover |
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| William Faulkner-"Barn Burning" |
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Sartoris faces an ethical dilemma-Father burned down barn
Goes to work for deSpain-soiled rug
Father is killed on the way to burn down deSpain's barn |
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| F. Scott Fitzgerald-"Babylon Revisited" |
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Charlie trying to escape his past
Recovering alcoholic-failed marriage, lost daughter
Wanderer |
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| Zora Neale Hurston-"The Gilded Six-Bits" |
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Missie May cheats on Joe with Otis Slemmons
Missie May becomes pregnant |
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| Langston Hughes-"The Weary Blues," "I, Too," "Words Like Freedom," and "Freedom" |
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"Weary Blues"-importance of music, melancholy, racial themes
"I, Too"-Body can be subjugated, but mind cannot be conquered/Blacks are Americans too
"Words Like Freedom"-Liberty actually oppresses blacks
"Freedom"-Tired of waiting |
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| Claude McKay-"Harlem Shadows" and "America" |
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"Harlem Shadows"-White society forces black girls into prostitution,while they deserve respect
"America"-positive and negative views of America |
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| Richard Wright-"The Man Who was Almost a Man" |
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Dave wants a pistol so people will respect him
Accidentally shoots mule
Runs away and hops on a train |
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| James Baldwin-"Going to Meet the Man" |
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Jesse wants to have sex with his wife Grace, but can't get hard
Thinks about racist thoughts and eventually gets hard |
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| Etheridge Knight-"Belly Song" and "The Idea of Ancestry" |
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Wrote poetry while in prison
Love and racism |
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| Hunter S. Thompson-"Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" |
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Reality vs. the surreal
Journalist and attorney experimenting with drugs |
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| John Cheever-"The Swimmer" |
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Man decides to travel home by swimming across pools
Money troubles |
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| Openly discusses drug use and homosexuality |
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