Question

Consider the poems of the Harlem Renaissance that you read this semester. Why does the theme of freedom play such an important role in these works? How do different poems address this theme? Cite examples and images from three Harlem Renaissance poems in your response.

Answer 1

As we probably am aware Harlem Renaissance was a development in the 1920's and 1930's amid which there was a blast of African-American workmanship and writing. Amid this time servitude and racial isolation were all the while being seen. ballads by Countee Cullen, Langston Hughes and others alike, drove the message home that these indecencies should be annulled.