Harlem renaissance/ descriptions of music, art, and poetry
Let america be america again
The message is racism and how America wasn’t the american dream for colored people.
We wear the masks
It relates to the race that they were and the self quilt and passionate personal regret of the fact of blackness.
Great migration series
The phrases large numbers and great numbers drive the story forward, like the chugging of a train along the tracks, pressing onward to a more promising future.
Aspects of Negro Life: An Idyll of the Deep South
Subverts to the myth of “happy southern plantation negro” by making them happy and cheerful but on the sides shows the lynching and field work of african americans. it shows racism and slave work.
Strange Fruit
“Strange Fruit” serves as an affirmation for black struggle and specifically for Ms. Holiday, it was an act of resistance against oppressive forces.
Darkies never dream
Seen as an act of resistance. In the song, Waters speaks of the oppression of the Black community. "We must walk a weary road that never seems to turn" and
"Who would ever hear our sad lament?" are just two examples of this.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
