Upload three images that reflect the Imagism movement or the Harlem Renaissance movement.

Answer (4) of the following questions. Employ specific details from the poems to support your analysis.

1. Upload three images that reflect the Imagism movement or the Harlem Renaissance movement.
2. Notice William Carlos Williams’ emphasis on the phrase “so much” as you read the “The Red Wheelbarrow.” Analyze this poem through the historical lens. What commentary might Williams’ images convey about industrialization and modernity?
3. Drawing from the images in William Carlos Williams’ “To Elsie,” in what ways does he perceive industrialization and modernity?
4. Drawing from the imagery within Amy Lowell’s “New Heavens for Old,” what did modernity offer women in comparison to men?
5.In what ways does Langton Hughes’ “I, Too” reflect “black resistance and black resilience?”
6. Claude McKay utilizes strict rhymes and the classic sonnet form. However, in what ways does his poem “If We Must Die” subvert the classic sonnet form?
7. In what ways does Paul Laurence Dunbar employ personification in “The Haunted Oak,” and how does the motif of “haunting” function within the poem?
8. In what ways does Jean Toomer’s “A Portrait in Georgia” incorporate aspects of imagism, and what type of event does his poem describe?
9. Employ the lenses of gender and psychoanalysis to analyze Alice Dunbar Nelson’s “I Sit and Sew”?
10. In what ways does Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “We Wear Mask” describe the experience of African Americans, and what aspects of the poem help him convey this experience?
11. Link the imagery in Claude McKay’s “The Lynching” to the historical event entitled the “Bloody Summer of 1919.”

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