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21 de mai. de 2024 · Harlem Renaissance by Christopher Varlack (Editor) The Harlem Renaissance represented an explosion of African American literature, drama, music, and visual art in 1920s America, with such notable figures as Langston Hughes, W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Countee Cullen, Claude McKay, and many more leading the charge.
12 de mai. de 2024 · Claude McKay, "Spring in New Hampshire" (1919) (poem) Version 2. Claude McKay, "Spring in New Hampshire" (1919) (poem) Too green the springing April grass, Too blue the silver-speckled sky, For me to linger here, alas, While happy winds go laughing by, Wasting the golden hours indoors, Washing windows and scrubbing floors.
Há 4 dias · Through the pregnant universe rumbles life's terrific thunder, And Earth's bowels quake with terror; strange and terrible storms break, Lightning-torches flame the heavens, kindling souls of men, th
12 de mai. de 2024 · Claude McKay, "Jasmines" (1921) Your scent is in the room. Swiftly it overwhelms and conquers me! Jasmines, night jasmines, perfect of perfume, Heavy with dew before the dawn of day! Your face was in the mirror. I could see. You smile and vanish suddenly away, Leaving behind the vestige of a tear.
13 de mai. de 2024 · I muse my life - long hate, and without flinch. I bear it nobly as I live my part. My being would be a skeleton, a shell, If this dark Passion that fills my every mood, And makes my heaven in the white world 's hell, Did not forever feed me vital blood. I see the mighty city through a mist--. The strident trains that speed the goaded mass,
20 de mai. de 2024 · Oh some I know I have embalmed the days. O. Even the sacred moments when we played. Q. All innocent of passion uncorrupt. Q. At noon and evening in the flame heart's shade. Q. We were so happy happy I remember.
13 de mai. de 2024 · Claude McKay reads "If We Must Die". Considered one of the founding members of "the New Negro movement" which would later become known as the Harlem Renaissance, Claude McKay reads one of his more frequently anthologized works "If We Must Die". This poem was written in response to the Red Summer of 1919, a harrowing time when anti-black riots ...
