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| Harlem |
| 作者Author / Langston Hughes 蘭斯頓．休斯 |
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Study Questions
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Harlem
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| Understanding & Analysis |
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- This poem is about the speaker's individual dream and about the American dream. What is the American Dream?
- Do you know what and where Harlem is? (if not, please read relevant link no. 3.) Langston Hughes was an African American who lived for part of his life in Harlem. What does this poem suggest about the relationship of African Americans to the American Dream?
- Why do you think the poem consists mostly of questions? What is the effect of the many questions?
- Do you agree with the analysis of this poem that appears in our textbook on pages 502-7?
- What does this poem suggest about the life of African Americans in the modern world?
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| Application & Wild Association |
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How is Hughes' version of the modern world different from Yeats' or Pound's? So far you have read four poems by or about Afro-Americans: "Harlem" (1951), "We Real Cool" (1960), "Those Winter Sundays" (1962), and "Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio"(1963). Do they share similar concerns? Or similar styles? They were all written in or a little before the 60's. Do you know what happened in the sixties? Can you try to compare them with the modern poems you have read by Auden, Yeats, Frost, Pound and Williams? |
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