https://digitallis.isg.siue.edu/files/original/9b351297e3fc88d2b464adbc29be53c6.pdf d42607175ee63965171df7f80e277303 PDF Text Text Related Sub-Topics For Unit #3 l. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Local and Regional Color in Black Poetry Dialect as a Vehicle for Poetry Differences Between Black and white Dialect Poetry Differences Between "Gullah" and other Black Dialect Poetry Africanisms in Dialect Poetry Limitations of Dialect Poetry Epic Poetry and tbe Black Literary Tradition Biblical Allusion in Late 19th Century Black Poetry Beginnings of the Authentic or Original Black Poet 59 �10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. l 7. 18. 19. 20. UNIT # 4: Music in Dialect and Oral Poetry Dance Possibilities in Dialect Poetry The Black Poet and Reconstruction The Black Poet After the Civil War Influence of Folklore on Black Poetry Influence of Minstrelsy on Black Poetry Social Legislation and Black Poetry Plantation Life in Black Poetry Nineteenth Century Social Life in Black Poetry Stylistic Differences in Late 19th Century Black Poetry Refinement in Poetic Forms NEW TRENDS AND DEFIANCE; HARLEM RENAISSANCE (1910 - 1930) �Related Sub-Topics for Unit# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. "The Harlem Renaissance" Through Poetry The Jazz Idiom in the New Poetry Plantation Life in the New Poetry Changes in Dialect Usage in Poets Between 1910-1930 6. Universality and the Black Poet Black Life Seen Through Black Poetry, 7. The Impact of Blues and Jazz on the Poetry Religious Influence on Black Poetry, 9. Africa as Seen by the Harlem Rennaissance Poets Divergent styles in Early 20th Century Black Poets Comparison/Contrast of Black and White Poets of the Period Major Themes in Black Poetry, 1910-1930 8. 10. 11. 12. UNIT# 4 1920-1930 1910-1930 5: THE MODERN BLACK POETS (1930 :~ 19_54}, �Related Sub-Topics for Unit# 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 5 Post Renaissance Black Women Poets Black Poets and World War II Black Poets and Lynching Universality in Black Poetry The Coming of Age Technical of Black Poetry Modern Technology and Black Poetry Music and the Blaek Poet Blues in the Works of Modern Black Poets The Influence of "Swing" on Black Poetry The Influence of Be Bop on Black Poetry The Influence of White Modern Poetry on Black Modern Poetry Distinctive Black Poetic Voices in the Modern Era From Margaret Walker to Gwendolyn Brooks The Folk Tradition Continued in Black Poetry Black Poets VS White Literary Establishment Black Poets and White Critics Langston Hughes and the Be Bop Tradition Langston Hughes and the Blues Tradition ��- . ,- ~ And t "he- Blues singer ~into.n ed: I'd rather drink muddy water, Sleep in a hollow log, Than to stay in this town til I 1 m dead! Or in the words of Bluesist Jimmy Reed: Next time you see me things wontt be the same; Next time you see me things won't be the same; And if it ain't you my dahling you'll only have Yourself'·to blame. For as B.B. King asserts: When I first got the blues, they· brought me over on a ship Men was standing over me and lot more with the whip And everybody wanna know why I sing the blues Well I've been around a long time, uum, really paid my dues. And finally Sam Cooke: Every time I fall I know It won't last too long And somehow right now I feel I 1 m able to carry on I 1 t been a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come. Complex, contradictory sometimes, often inexplicable, but hardly unutterable--the Black Folk tradition derived from the ritualistic rudiments of African Expression. From the animal tales and cycles to the wandering Blues troubador to the charisma of the Black preacher, the tradition unfolds. Related Sub-Topics For Unit# l l. The Ingredients of Folk Poetry 45 �2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Black Oral Epics The Oral Tradition in Black Poetry The Anatomy of Ritualistic Expression Poetical Devices in Spirituals Poetical Devices in Blues Audience Responses to Folk Poetry Writing the Oral ·Poem Philosophy of the Blues Explicating the Spiritual Therapeutic Purposes of Folk Literature Comparing/Contrasting the Spiritual and English Hymn �colloquialisms, idoms, social problems, styles and attitudes. One has only to spend a £ew hours in northern and southern Black communities to understand some of the distinctions between the two. It bas become popular in· some rhetorical quarters to disclaim the differ·e nces with the rationale that "Black folks are the same everywhere and their common problem is oppression.u The sensitive and . observing teacher, however, will recognise such over simplification of the Black Experience and procede accordingly. The next phases of this section will explore the course anatomy. The format will be a unit-by-unit breakdown of an historical course in Black American Poetry.· Each unit will be examined froni the standpoint of its Literary/Social Background and Related Sub-Topics. In Section III the day -to- day classroom sessions will be discussed along with some exciti ng experiments for dramatizi ng , explicating and researchr· ing the poetry . fflU'I' # l:--: U\Af QJ\.1[ iha- \~ •\t -~_f,; ~U.1t11lt u .,, \'~ J 1. ROOTS OF BLACK EXPRESSION AND THE FOLK TRADITION L �and • • 10 � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Eugene B. Redmond Digital Collection Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. 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