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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dialect poems
Dialect poems, plays on stereotypes. Met/ was admired by Frederick Douglass at the world’s fair. Born in OH
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Booker T. Washington
Abolitionist literature
1901
Up from Slavery
Narrative. DuBois said he was too passive of accepting social reality. Liked hard work. Born a slave.
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Willa Cather
Impressionism
1904
A Wagner Matinee
Grew up in Nebraska, wrote about life on the farm
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Upton Sinclair
- Naturalism
- Realistic
- Muckraking
1906
The Jungle
FDA, pure food & drug act. Exposed meatpacking industry.
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Mary Antin
1912
The Promised Land
Supported TR’s progressive party, Jewish. 1st poem published in the Boston herald. Immigrated to Boston from polotsk.
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e.e. cummings
Modernist
1923
Buffalo Bill’s
Bitterness, reminiscing, lost generation tone.
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Carl Sandburg
Folktales/ Folk mythology
- Who made Paul Bunyan from The People, Yes
- The Chicago Poems
- Gone
Was a myth, Paul was static, didn’t change internally. Sandburg seemed to be an observer of the lost generation.
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Wallace Stevens
1915
Disillusionment at 10 o’clock
Not published until 1923, used color
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
Was an important political figure in 30s/40s for writing political poetry against euro fascism. Grew up in Maine.
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Claude McCay
1921
- America
- To the white fiend
Born in Jamaica, hostility in his poems towards racism/am.
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William Carlos Williams
1923
The red wheelbarrow
Imagism, word pics
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James Weldon Johnson
Harlem Renaissance
1927
Sonnet
Born in FL, trained as a lawyer, was a teacher, moved to NYC for musical theater.
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Randall Jarrell
Opposition to ww2
1945
The death of ball turret gunner
Fear of war, pity, plays on fears, conflicts, imagery, tone.
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Langston Hughes
Civil rights mvmt
Talks of the decay of the civil rights mvmt/af am culture.
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Allen Ginsberg
Beats
Beat generation, dissatisfaction w/ am.
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Bob Dylan
Music, folk
1960s
Subterranean homesick blues, talking john birch paranoid blues, talking wwIII blues, masters of war.
Opposition to war, protests, ignorance, civ rights
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Marvin Gaye
Music, r&b
1960s-1970s
What’s going on, what’s happening brother, flyin high in the friendly sky ect.
Viet war opposition, no work, no money, drugs.
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JFK
Inaugural address
1961
Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country.
Allusions to bible, promotes peace/unity.
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Rap music
Music, rap
1980s
Rap: the message, bedtime story, hard times, Jesse
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