Arts & Entertainment Essay Examples

The title of this poem is “$” and is part of Carol Ann Duffy’s fisrt collection, Standing Female Nude which was released in 1985. The title gives no hint about what the poem may be about, except for the fact that it is about money, and in particular, American money. Instead of writing the word…

The speaker in Harlem contemplates The fate of aspirations that are unrealized The speaker’s role in Harlem is to Criticize appression The phrases “Oh blues!” and “Sweet blues!” are examples of Repetition Both lines of poetry appeal to the sense of ________ Hearing Which lines from the poem suggest that the speaker is impressed by…

McKay The Harlem Dancer:blacktitle.jpg (12329 bytes) On “The Harlem Dancer” Eugenia W. Collier Perhaps the poems which showed most effectively the tragic consequences of oppression, and which speak most eloquently in a universal language, are the poems which present quick portraits of black individuals. Here one sees a close-up of the laborer in Cullen’s poem,…