Modernism

I choose the Harlem Renaissance for my study for the fact that i love to here or read about my history. It's excites me when i read about the upcoming of African Americans, being that my self makes me have hope for striving to be the best i can be. I expect to see the this come out in this section because the Harlem Renaissance is a good example of Modernism.

The Gilded Six-Bits by Zora Neale Hurston was a great story. The story was kind of hard the read with the way the text was wrote. I like the way she showed that even tho someone can do you wrong, but when love is involved it really don't matter what they did. It was still messed up that Miss May cheated on Joe when she was the one telling him not to believe what Mr. Slemmons said. She was calling him a dummy for believe that he had gold when in the end she was the dummy and almost got her marriage eradicated for a fifty cent piece. Joe was a man of great restraint when dealing with his wife for the next couple of months. He still accepted her as his wife even tho if he wasn't there she was going to sleep with Slemmons that night, that really couldn't have been me.

Poem 1: Richard Corey seemed like he was crazy rich, its crazy how he shot him self in the head when he was so rich. He must have been unhappy with his lifestyle, they didn't say he had a wife so that why i think he may have shot his self. Or maybe it could have been the fact that he came to realize that there was nothing else to live for since he already had everything he want and there was nothing else to achieve.

Poem 2: Mending Wall was a confusing poem to understand. It keep going on and off the topic through out the whole entire poem. To me Robert Frost might be a great poem writer but he could have done better on this one.

Poem 3: In this poem Langston Hughes makes you really think about what happens to a dream deferred. It makes you realize that if you don't follow your dreams your dreams will be like a burden on your mind. What i think what will happens to a dream deferred is it will never come true if you don't have the will power to later on come back and pursue your dream.

Poem 4: This poem really is a great poem to read but not very long. It explains how he is in touch with rivers and nature. One of his quotes was "My soul has grown deep like the rivers", to me it's saying that he has grown a lot in his life time like river has.

Poem 5: To tell you the truth i really didn't like this poem. The reason for that cause the little boy got called a nigger for just smiling at the other person. But i guess it was a good poem for back then cause it tells you what going in the streets of Baltimore.