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BLOCO VI - POESIA NA LITERATURA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA 60H (2023.1) Prof.

Francisco Romário Nunes (E-mail: francisco.nunes@prp.uespi.br)

ACITIVITY 03

Student Name: _MARIA CLARA TEIXEIRA______________________________________

According to the material you have read in our poetry, answer the study questions below:

1. In the Nineteenth Century America, young intellectuals of Boston dissatisfied with the
old patriotism formed a movement called Transcendentalism. Who were ahead of this
movement, and what did they try to convey?

2. Walt Whitman is perhaps the first democratic poet of The United States. Explain why
Whitman’s two favorite words are “sing” and “absorb”.

3. Emily Dickinson is known as a reclusive poetess. Choose a poem by the author and
analyze its subjects.

4. Edgar Allan Poe evokes dark aspects of the human soul in some of his poems. Explain
why the author portrays mournful experiences in his poems. What kind of poetic quality
does the poet build from such themes?

5. In the 1920s, African American writers were influenced by experimental styles of

European and American literature. They tried using new forms to talk about the
experience of black people in American Society. What movement did they form in New
York?
Describe how this movement changed black experiences and arts. Then, read the poem
“I, too”, by Langston Hughes, and discuss how the poet portrays black identity.

I, too, sing America.

I am the darker brother.

They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.

Tomorrow,
I’ll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody’ll dare
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Say to me, “Eat in

the kitchen,” Then.

Besides,
They’ll see how beautiful I am And
be ashamed—

I, too, am America.