The answer is C. The topic sentence contains the main idea in a paragraph.
Answer:
B. He wanted to make the poem more concise and direct.
Explanation:
Ezra Pound wrote a 30-line poem where he narrated his experience in a Paris metro station but he discarded this version because he did not like it.
Much later, he again tried narrating his experience, this time making the narration shorter than the first, but he again discarded it.
Finally, after reading Japanese hiakus, Mr. Pound finally wrote his experience in a two-line version that has now become immensely popular because of its length.
So, he reduced his poem from a 30-lined one to two lines because he wanted to make the poem more concise and direct.
According to <em>"The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain"</em>, one powerful way that the standard of whiteness affects African Americans is through the unconscious.
In the poem, the author states this idea very well at the beginnig of the poem when he says: <em>"...I want to be a poet, not a Negro poet..." </em>One can interpret that the poet has a conscious desire to be white or an unconscious desire not to be black.
The use of whiteness as a standard of beauty and wellness is another powerful way to impact African Americans.
<em>Langston Hughes</em> wrote "The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain" in 1926.
In the poem, Hughes wrote about the lives of Black People in Balck neighbourhoods in the United States.
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