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Harlem Renaissance poetry- Major theme Racism African American history Family Change

Poem- Sonnet To A Negro In Harlem
You are disdainful and magnificent-- Your perfect body and your pompous gait, Your dark eyes flashing solemnly with hate; Small wonder that you are incompetent To imitate those whom you so dispise-- Your shoulders towering high above the throng, Your head thrown back in rich, barbaric song, Palm trees and manoes stretched before your eyes. Let others toil and sweat for labor's sake And wring from grasping hands their meed of gold. Why urge ahead your supercilious feet? Scorn will efface each footprint that you make. I love your laughter, arrogant and bold. You are too splendid for this city street!

// __Written by Helene Johnson (1906-1995)__ //
This is a good example of Harlem Renaissance poetry because it is talking about African American history. I really like this poem and I found a new poet that I like.

//I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed// //by madness, starving hysterical// //naked,// //dragging themselves through the negro streets at// //dawn looking for an angry fix,// //angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient// //heavenly connection to the starry// //dynamo in the machinery of night. .// This beat poem, the author of which is anonymous, clearly expresses beat poetry ideals. The word naked on its own line shows the use of inappropriate topics to further prove the point or message of the poem.
 * Beat poetry** utilizes spontaneity, open emotion, visceral engagement in gritty world experiences, spiritual yearning, and often uses concepts from Buddhism, Judaism, and Catholicism. Beat poetry is know for challenging the limits of free expression, usually talking about controversial topics such as sex or drugs.

Surrealism is poetry that words to help the reader pictures images to greater understand the poem. Surrealism was first used to help people connect on a psychological level. Surrealism aimed to express the works of the unconscious and grew out of Dadaism. **IDEAL MISTRESS** I was delayed that afternoon because I had brushed the teeth of a pretty animal that I'm patiently taming. It's a chameleon. This endearing animal smoked, as usual, some cigarettes, then I left. I met her on the stairs. "I'm mauving," she told me, while I myself crystal at full sky I at her look that river towards me. Then it locks and, maîtresse! You pitcherpin so that at nice vase I sit down if the paths tombs. The staircase, always the staircase that library, and the crowds down there more abyss than the sun only clocks. Lets get back up! But in vain, memories become sardine! hardly, hardly a button doodledoos. Fall, fall down! And here the verdict: "The dancer will be executed the following morning while doing a dance step with her gems sacrificed to the heat of her body: The blood of the gems, soldiers!" And what then, the mirror yet! Mistress you black square, and if the clouds all at once forgetmenot, they mills in the ever present eternity. Robert Desnos, translated by Johannes Beilharz Pasted from <[]> This poem has many descriptive words that allow you to image what is going in the poem. It helps to picture the poem for yourself so you get what the author is talking about.
 * Surrealism**


 * __Language__**

Language poetry is all about language being the main focus of writing and not concentrating too much on things like literary devices. Language poetry writes try to involved the reader in the text, as they make construction of meaning based off the readers participation. Reading can look at language as the arena, as the medium, the mode of engagement, the centerpiece of Method. What’s social here is not some separable //content//, but the //Method// of writing & of editing. Pasted from <[]> This is an excerpt from Bruce Andrews The poetics of Language. It talks about how read takes engagement and you have to be apart of it.


 * Imagism** was the movement of poetry that favored precision of clear sharp language to create an image rather then loose, open ended verses that leave room for the reader to make their own interpretations.

The wind from out of the west is blowing The homeward-wandering cows are lowing, Dark grow the pine woods, dark and drear, — The woods that bring the sunset near. When o'er wide seas the sun declines, Far off its fading glory shines, Far off, sublime, and full of fear — The pine woods bring the sunset near. This house that looks to east, to west, This dear one, is our home, our rest; Yonder the stormy sea, and here The woods that bring the sunset near.
 * The Woods that Bring the Sunset Near**

This poem, by Richard Watson Gilder, it a clear example of a painted image. The language is sharp and the message is clear; there is no room for the interpretations of the reader.

poem-  ** THE ADULT THING By Paul Muldoon
 * New Formalism- this poetry came about in the late twentieth century and the early twenty- first century. This is American poetry that has very rhythmic, and metrical verses.

IT WAS OBVIOUS NEWT AND RUDY WERE HAVING AN AFFAIR JFK WAS DOING JUDY WHILE JACKIE DID HER HAIR SINCE LBJ AND FDR OPENED UP THE WEST WING THE GUY AT THE END OF A BAR HAS POCKETED HIS RING AND DONE THE ADULT THING THE ADULT THING HE’S DONE THE ADULT THING

SINCE TARZAN CHEATED WITH CHEETAH AND MONICA WITH BILL THE MASTER WITH MARGARITA IN MARGARITAVILLE SINCE PRINCE CHARLES AND PRINCESS DI WERE CLEARLY BORN TO SWING AND HENRY VIII CAME TO VIE WITH MARTIN LUTHER KING I’VE DONE THE ADULT THING THE ADULT THING I’VE DONE THE ADULT THING

NOW I VIEW THE WORLD THROUGH A SALTED RIM SINCE I FOUND OUT ABOUT YOUR NIGHT WITH JIM AND I’M STARTING TO WONDER IF IT’S TRUE ADULTERY’S THE ADULT THING TO DO

YOU COULD SEE KOBE AND MAGIC NEEDED MORE TRIPLE SEC WHILE NELSON LAY HEMORRHAGIC ON THE //VICTORY’S// DECK AT LEAST EINSTEIN WOULD NEVER ASK “HOW LONG’S A PIECE OF STRING?” AT LEAST EINSTEIN WOULD NEVER MASK HIS HAVING HAD A FLING HE DID THE ADULT THING THE ADULT THING HE DID THE ADULT THING

Slam Poetry- this type of poetry is performing where as most poetry is just reading the poem. This is a new type of poetry and is very interesting once someone gets into it. Lots of Slam poetry is found on youtube. - emotions - acting - a good quality to have would be a loud voice. - [|http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSR7H580e5U]