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Harlem Renaissance & Langston Hughes
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Harlem Renaissance & Langston Hughes

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

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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

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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

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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






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Harlem Renaissance
'spiritual coming of age' 


Louis Armstrong
Josephine Baker 
Count Basie
Aaron Douglas
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes

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Langston Hughes

1901 - 1967


What stands out to you?

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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. 
 

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The Weary Blues

1925



Literary devices?


Definitions on LessonUp!

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

Example: 
'While I nodded, nearly napping'

Edgar Allen Poe - 'The Raven'

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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'

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

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

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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. 

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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

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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.

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