Answer:
I think this means that the dead wood (useless/burdensome people or things) are the same anywhere they are. So the useless are useless not only in one situation but useless all around.
Explanation:
Example: He cut the "deadwood" from the group. So he is getting rid of the useless people in the group.
Answer: I believe the answer is personification.
Explanation: Philllis Wheatley's description of mother earth having offspring and nations gazing at scenes are not exaggerations, but rather putting human nature attributes to these objects.
The narrator talks about a place where trees bear a lot of fruit. Cluade McKay was born in the West Indies where the place was loaded with trees just like the ones he describes in the first part of his poem.
<span>Langston Hughes is very angry. The term "Brother" has a new non-biblical context in his time. He's showing the duality of the term, not a new "universal" kinship. Sometimes his brother is black, sometimes his brother is white.
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and the last one it's a history that i need to find :)