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1. What Did Hughes' The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seek To Do? Which Poem Seeks To Do The Same And Through What Does It Do So?

He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.It Is An Act Of Glorified Resistance To Displacement. The Speaker Displays How Harlem Belongs To Those Who Truly 'feel And See And Hear' Harlem. This Powerful Reclaiming Of Space Shows How Hughes Is Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Those Oppressed By Those Trying To Take Harlem From Them.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.

2. Why Would Hughes Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising.

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.It Is An Act Of Glorified Resistance To Displacement. The Speaker Displays How Harlem Belongs To Those Who Truly 'feel And See And Hear' Harlem. This Powerful Reclaiming Of Space Shows How Hughes Is Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Those Oppressed By Those Trying To Take Harlem From Them.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.

3. What Does Hughes Criticise In His Poetry?

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.It Is An Act Of Glorified Resistance To Displacement. The Speaker Displays How Harlem Belongs To Those Who Truly 'feel And See And Hear' Harlem. This Powerful Reclaiming Of Space Shows How Hughes Is Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Those Oppressed By Those Trying To Take Harlem From Them.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.

4. So - If The Speaker Knows Where They're From - What Is The Act? What Does The Speaker Display? What Does The Reclaiming Of Space Represent?

It Is An Act Of Glorified Resistance To Displacement. The Speaker Displays How Harlem Belongs To Those Who Truly 'feel And See And Hear' Harlem. This Powerful Reclaiming Of Space Shows How Hughes Is Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Those Oppressed By Those Trying To Take Harlem From Them.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.

5. What Did Alain Locke Say? What Does This Show About Black People And Music? Talk About How Black People Were Stereotyped By White People And How Hughes Picks Up On This In His Poetry.

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.In His 1925 Essay Entitled 'the New Negro' - Alain Locke States That Folk Music Allowed Black People To Shake 'off The Psychology Of Imitation And Implied Inferiority'. Black People Used Music To Liberate Themselves From White Stereotyping By Creating Their Own Form Of Entertainment And Popular Culture In Order To Undo Racial Prejudicing Such As Black Face. Hughes Picks Up On This Undoing Of Racial Stereotyping In His Poem '125th Street'.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.

6. What Do Both Loy And Hughes Adopt?

7. How Does Hughes' Unique Musicality Liberate Voices? What Poem And What Techniques Does He Use?

The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.Hughes Liberates The Voice Through Unique Musicality In His Poem 'the Negro Speaks Of Rivers'. He Uses Repetition In The Poem. For Example - The Speaker Uses The Same Refrain - 'i've Known Rivers' A Few Times In The Poem. This Harkens Back To The Blues Music Tradition On Plantations. Repetition Allowed Black Slaves To Easily Remember Songs They Were Singing During Their Enslavement - And This Carried On As A Trope Into Blues Music.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.

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9. How Does 'theme For English B' Reclaim Space? Give A Quotation And Say What It Seems Like. Is The Speaker Sure Of Who They Are?

The Poem Seeks To Reclaim Space Through The Speaker Locating Themselves In The City Of Harlem. The Speaker Is A Product Of That Space - And As 'the Only Colored Student' - Their Solid Self-association With Harlem Seems To Read As A Reaction To The Gentrification Of Harlem Enacted By White People. The Speaker Is Not Totally Sure Of Who They Are In Relation To Their White Teacher - But The Poem Makes It Clear That The Speaker Knows Exactly Where They're From And Where They Belong Due To The Stark References To Harlem.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.

10. What Did Loy Say In Her 1914 Feminist Manifesto? Combined With Her Poetry - What Do These Do?

He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.Loy States That Males Are The Female Enemy - And That We Should Dismount Patriarchal Institutions Like Pre-marital Virginity In Order To Liberate The Female Sex. Combined With Her Poetry - They Destabilise Male Patriarchal Dominance And Seek To Liberate The Feminine Voice.

11. Who Did Loy Become Involved With? What Poem Could Be About Him? Which Phrases - What Do They Do?

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.Loy Became Heavily Involved With The Italian Futurist Filippo Marinetti. Her Poem - 'a Sketch Of A Man On A Platform' Could Be About Him - As Phrases Such As 'your Projectile Nose' Suggests. Another Phrase - 'your Genius / So Much More In Your Brain / Than In Your Body' Objectifies Marinetti - And Seeks To Satirise His Masculine Talents (Or Lack Thereof).The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.

12. What Do Loy And Hughes Exemplify?

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.They Exemplify The 'thousand Languages' Of America. They Present Gendered - Racialized And Thus Subjugated Voices. They Vocalise Them And Seek To Liberate Them Through Poetry.

13. What Did Both Mina Loy And Langston Hughes Have? What Did They Document Them In?

14. What Do These Two Examples Show?

15. What Did Loy Become Heavily Influenced By? How Does Her Poetry Show This?

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.Loy Became Heavily Influenced By The Italian Futurists During Her Time Living In Florence. Her Experimental Use Of Syntax - Innovative Use Of Space And Punctuation All Mirror The Dynamism Of The Technological Advancements Praised By The Futurists.

16. What Term Did W. E. B. Du Bois Coin? Explain It.

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.W. E. B. Du Bois Coined The Term 'double-consciousness' In His Text The Souls Of Black Folk - Which Is The Concept Of 'always Looking At Oneself Through The Eyes Of Others' And Always Feeling A Constant 'twoness'.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.

17. How Does Mina Loy Liberate Herself From This Chauvinistic Male Bias? Which Poem Does She Do It In? What Techniques Does She Use And What Does It Create?

The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.Mina Loy Liberates Herself From Chauvinistic Male Bias In Her Poem 'at The Door Of The House' Where She Speaks About Being Trapped. She Liberates Herself By Using Lots Of Line-breaks And Strange Spacing - Which Were Perhaps Her Own Form Of Feminine Self-censorship. By Omitting Certain Things From Her Poetry - She Was Able To Keep What She Wanted To Say From Those Like Pound Who Might Criticise Her. The Spaces And Gaps Create A Unique Musicality That Would Not Necessarily Be There Had She Filled The Gaps With Words And Phrases.

18. Which Of Loy's Poems Could Be Used In Conjunction With This Philosophy? What Does It Show?

He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.Her 1917 'love Songs' With Phrases Like 'oh That's Right / Keep Away From Me' And 'don't Let Me Understand You... Or We Might Tumble Together / Depersonalised / Identical' Shows Not Only The Fear Of Giving Yourself Away To Someone - But Also That Females Are Never Given The Privilege Of Being Equal To Men In Relationships.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.

19. Explain Why Mina Loy Did Not Like Ezra Pound's Condescension And Chauvinistic Male Bias. What Did He Say About Her?

He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.Mina Loy Did Not Like Pound Because He Said Hers And Marianne Moore's Poetry Sounded Like 'utterances Of Clever People In Despair'. This Implies That To Be Clever And To Be A Female Must Obviously Mean To Be In Despair. He Also Said That Their Poetry Is Something That Could Not Have Come Out Of Any Other Nation But America - Which Is Ignorant And Misinformed - Because Mina Loy Was In Fact Born In London - And Had Lived In Florence. She Only Became An American Citizen In 1946.

20. How Could Both Hughes And Loy Express This 'double-consciousness'?

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.Because As An African American - And As A Female - One Is Constantly Being Viewed By The Eyes Of White Men And Is Subject To The White Male Gaze.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.

21. Although Loy Praised The Aesthetics Of Futurism - What Did She Not Commend?

Although Loy Commended The Aestheticism Of Futurism - She Did Not Commend Its Masculine Patriarchal Ideology.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.

22. How Were Both Poets Perhaps Of An Inferior Class Of People? What Is It Plausible To Say Then?

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.Mina Loy Was Born In 1882 And Females Were Only Given The Vote In America In 1920. Also - Langston Hughes Was African American - And Was Born In 1902 - Thus He Would Have Experienced The Hardships That Black People Went Through In America Before The Eradication Of Jim Crow Laws During The Civil Rights Movement Of The 1950s And 1960s. Thus - It Is Plausible To State That On Different Levels - Both Poets Were Belonging To A Subjugated People Because They Were Not Upper Or Middle Class White Males.

23. What Things Will I Be Exploring In Relation To Implied Inferiority?

The Stereotyping Of African Americans.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.Unique Musicality - Philosophical Theory - And Tone.

24. What Does This Potential Denouncing Of Marinetti Achieve?

He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.This Denouncing Liberates Her Feminine Voice And Her Unique Tone Allows Her To Destabilise The Dominant Masculine Patriarchy Acting On Women At The Time. She Triumphs In This Poem As A Witty - Comical And Thoroughly Invigorating Poet.

25. Talk About Tone And Use Phrases From '125th Street'.

The Negro Artist And The Racial Fountain 1926 Seeks To Destabilise Colonial Imperialism Through Celebrating The Beauty And Strength Of Oppressed Peoples. His Poem 'theme For English B' Does This Through The Reclaiming Of Space.The Stereotyping Of African Americans.The Poem Has Three Short Stanzas Which Use The Same Phrase - 'face Like A' And Then Go Onto List Some Common Stereotypes Of Black People - Such As Face Like A 'chocolate Bar' And Smile Like A 'melon Slice'. This Subversion In Tone Allows Hughes To Comment On Racial Prejudice With A Distinctive Aural Tone Which At Once Denounces White Prejudice While Retaining A Sense Of Black Power Through Using Black Aural Traditions Of Repetition. This Liberates African American Voices From These Racial Stereotypes By Using Their Own Prerogative Form Of Music In Order To Subvert And Destabilise Racial Stereotyping.He Would Have Been Attuned To Forms Of African American Memorialising Because He Was An African American Poet - And Was Included In Respected African American Journals - Such As W. E. B. Du Bois' Journal.

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