High-Stakes Essay #2: A Poet’s Focus Topic: Locate a sampling of THREE or FOUR poems by two other great American Poets, Langston Hughes OR Gwendolyn Brooks

High-Stakes Essay #2: A Poet’s Focus

Topic: Locate a sampling of THREE or FOUR poems by two other great American Poets, Langston Hughes OR Gwendolyn Brooks. In their bodies of work themes such as dignity, racism, survival, black identity, American identity, giving voice to the marginalized, collective memory are evident. (I have attached them below) For this paper, I am asking that you choose ONE of these poets and analyze how that poet addresses ONE or TWO of these themes.

Requirements

• Your analysis should be 5-6 pages in length, not including the works cited page.
• Your paper should reference 3 outside sources
  • 1 source providing biographical and/or historical information as it relates to the poetry
  • 2 sources of critical commentary, wherein literary scholars analyze the work(s) of the poets.

Sources should be credible and scholarly. Two useful databases in the York College Library are Academic Search Premiere (EBSCOhost) and JSTOR. You may also search Google Scholar.

3 POEMS TO USE

https://workandworkingblog.wordpress.com/2020/01/20/brotherly-love/amp/

http://org.coloradomesa.edu/~blaga/421/Freedom_Train.html

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44428/the-negro-speaks-of-rivers

2 THEMES TO USE IT BASED ON - RACISM AND BLACK IDENTITY

LINK TO USE FOR HISTORICAL INFORMATION

http://www.americaslibrary.gov/aa/hughes/aa_hughes_subj.html

LINK TO USE FOR CRITICAL COMMENTARY

https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=langston+hughes+race

https://www.jstor.org/stable/3300277?Search=yes&resultItemClick=true&searchText=langston+hughes+african+american+identity&searchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dlangston%2Bhughes%2Bafrican%2Bamerican%2Bidentity&ab_segments=0%2FSYC-5770%2Ftest&refreqid=fastly-default%3A94adaac6ace6ceeaa1001369f5c194ab&seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents

Tags: world war ii Racial Equality american identity black identity American novelists