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The Sounds of Change in Culture
The cultural movement of The Harlem Rennisance changing the ideas and ideals while also inspiring African American writers to write more frequently.
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English
10th Grade
04/20/2012

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Mesmer Sharon. "In what ways might you consider yourself an

    American poet?"poetrysociety.org.Poetryweb,n.d,Web. 17

    April 2012.




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 1-1                                                                    #1

 

The American Literature has beneifited through the poems of the Harlem Rennisance.

 

 

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Hacker, Marilyn. "What's American About American Form?"

    Poetry Soiety. Poetry.org,n.d.,Web. 17 April 2012




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 Indivdualism                                                        #2

 

Modernism is the quenessential way of showing individualism. 

 

 

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Modernism                                                #2

 Marianne Moore, that quintessential Modernist, hardly ever wrote a poem which was not "formal"



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The poetry of the Harlem Rennisance used modernism to create a way of using linquestics and politcally complex to attract a wider view of audience. 

 

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American                                                        #2

 

The Harlem Rennisance is one of the Greatest culture changes in the whole entire American History.

 

 

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Hughes, Langston. "I Sing America,too." Prentic Hall Book,

      Book., N.d., 18 April 2012

 

 

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Equility                                                            #3

 

I sing America too is responding to the Walt Whittman Poet.

 

 

 

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Dark                                                                  #3

 

"I am the darker brother"'  

 

 

 

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Weldon Johnson, James, Harlem: The Culture Capital  

    1925, excerpts. 1925. Print.  



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Harlem was a place where Negros could get a job with ease.

 

 

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Money                                                                   #4

 

 

"New Comers did not have to look for work,"

 

 

 

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Buying Property                                                     #4

 

 

Buying properties in Harlem were at a high because of World War I was occuring leaving all the jobs. 

 

 

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Self Surporting Comunity                                         #4

 

The Negro Comunnity of Harlem was able to be self reliant and able to surport themselves. 

 

 

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