Analysis Of The Poem ' The Intersections Of Cane '

Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.

Throughout history, authors have used poetry as a way to express themselves and how they think or feel in an artistic way. There have been poems written about almost every feeling a person has ever had which is why poetry is so popular, because it describes feelings in a way many people cannot. In present day, people from all around the world look back at old poetry and try to define the true meanings behind poems using literally elements and context clues to aid them, this is known as explication. The writing named “Boat of Cypress” is a famous poem written long ago by an unknown author, and composed about a woman full of misery and despair from her personal point of view. Throughout this poem, the readers

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Toomer is a controversial literary and cultural figure who gets criticized by people for rejecting his race. He is praised by others for the confines of rigid ethnic distinctions. Toomer’s rejection of race drew sharp criticism from many people, especially from members of the African American community. They found him being self- loathing rather than racial unification (Claypool 2). Toomer has been criticized for failing to write about the experience after Cane. Many people said he denied his African American heritage out of shame and cowardice (Claypool 4). Many critics have credited his work with ushering in the Harlem Renaissance noting the book’s representations of African American characters and culture. Others have located it within the lost generation owing to its literary experimentation, romantic primitivism, and its critiques of postwar values (Jones 3). The analysis of Cane contains Toomer denying his racial heritage. This book also contains the extracts from most of the important early Cane criticism (Golding 3).

Humanity is but a facet of the sublime macrocosm that is the world’s landscapes. In the relationship between man and landscape, nature is perpetually authoritarian. In her free-verse poems, The Hawthorn Hedge, (1945) and Flame-Tree in a Quarry (1949), Judith Wright illustrates the how refusal to engage with this environment is detrimental to one’s sense of self, and the relentless endurance of the Australian landscape. This overwhelming force of nature is mirrored in JMW Turner’s Romantic artwork, Fishermen at Sea (1796). Both Wright and Turner utilise their respective texts to allegorise the unequal relationship between people and the unforgiving landscape.

Born on December 26 1894, Jean Toomer was an accomplished poet, and novelist during the time of the harlem renaissance. His first book was published in 1923, titled Cane. Throughout the course of his life, he wrote a total of 21 poems, and 6 books. HIs full name was actually Nathan Pinchback Toomer, after his father, who decamped after his birth. Toomer was then raised by his mother, with some support from his grandparents. Nathan’s grandfather, Pinckney Pinchback referred to him as “Eugine“ instead of his father’s name as a way of showing disrespect to him for abandoning his family. Toomer’s family also had a European lineage, so growing up he moved between all-white and all-black schools. When he became an adult, he wasn’t very open about his

Out in the yard of an old married couple, there grew a peach tree that flourished with fruit every year, and every year the routine was the same. When summer arrived, each day the old couple would walk outside to pick the ripest peaches on their tree. Some days, they would walk home proudly with a basket full of ripe peaches, giddy with excitement for what they might bake with their prized fruit. But every once in a while, they would come home with very few peaches, allowing them to solemnly eat their fresh fruit instead of a concocted sweet treat.

Each part of the United States had their different standpoints towards blacks and the leaders of the Harlem Renaissance were devoted to crushing the negative attitudes placed upon the Afro-Americans. During this time race was a social construct. Everyday lives were affected by skin color whether people were aware or not. For years African Americans were shunned into a classification that viewed their society as less than human. Toomer’s novel shows the ability race has to affect and intersect different aspects and domains of society and life, as well as dismantle it. Jean Toomer created this piece of art for a reason. Cane suggests that the social construct created upon race should be avoided, for people of all different social classes have equal potential for success.

From the beginning of William Carlos Williams’ poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” the reader is captured by the statement “so much depends” (Williams line 1). As this short work continues the reader is seeing a graceful image that Williams creates. The mind’s eye can envision a painting that is tranquil, yet has the quiet activity of a rural farm home. With this in mind, what exactly is the author sharing with the reader? The poem communicates charmingly the dependence a man has for a vital piece of equipment.

Initially, Collins demonstrates how one can weigh a dog’s weight with his method. Concrete diction in the first stanza, such as, “ small bathroom”, “ balancing”, and “shaky” suggest the uncomfortable nature of his intimate relationship with his pet. Although Collin is unappreciated for the gritty toil determination, he praise himself to applauded that “this is the way” and raising his self-esteem by comparing how easier it is than to train his dog obesity. In addition, the negative diction used to describe Collin holding his dog to be “awkward” for him and “bewildering” for his pet. This establish he rather force love rather willing show patience. When holding a pet on scale, there is less hustle because he secures the dog’s position by carrying it. Where as when he orders the dog to stay on the weighing scale with a cookie, his dog only followed him because of the expected reward.

There are times when a person is a member of several racial groups. In Jean Toomer’s 1923 novel Cane, Toomer writes about the lives of African Americans in Southern America and Northern America, mostly around the Washington, D.C. area. He depicts each of their struggles throughout the three-part novel. In his novel, he explores the life of Bona and Paul, an interracial couple, and shows the cultural divide between whites and African Americans in urban America.

“Ancestral lines” by John Barker is a book about the anthropologist’s experience in the Uiaku village located in Papua New Guinea. In the first chapter, Barker tells his readers briefly about him and his education, his and his wife’s experience with the Maisin community, and talks in great detail about the Maisin and their culture in the Uiaku village.

As he approaches the ledge, he capitalizes on the fact that he will either taste the dust or be relieved he made it. He gets to the ledge and pops up in perfect formation. His head sideways as he shifts his weight from the nose of the Almost branded skateboard with Thunder trucks and soft wheels to tail of the board. His brick red vans steady on the nose of the board as he executes a perfect 5-0 nose grind. He is thinking will he actually beat the almost extinct odds of him making the trick. He gazes out in space as he synchronizes his thoughts with his actions. The last thing he could think is that he would fail at the last second and hitting the crackled concrete with a fat layer of white paint. As he ends

Jhumpa Lahiri short story, Interpreter of Maladies, reflect symbolism. Mr. Kapasi and Mrs. Mina Das, are the main characters in the story. It is understood to be a broken family and an unhappy marriage between the Das family. Mr. Das is completely unaware and has not come to realize the fact that his marriage is broken, but Mrs. Das is trying to escape her unhappy and uncomfortable marriage. They have been long disconnected from each other, but avoid confronting each other about their feelings.

Walker, in her article “The Divided Life of Jean Toomer”, does not address the content of Cane and the essence that it carries in society. She more so writes about Jean Toomer and the times in which he conflictingly decided who he was. He had a tough time finding an identity and settled for saying that he was “American”. Walker notes that Toomer “decided he would say nothing of his racial identity unless asked. If asked, he would say, basically, that he was an American (Toomer-Walker 263).” In the rest of her analysis, Walker describes Toomer as this author who left this beautiful piece behind after having a slight moment of Negro revelation. This is a sympathetic moment since his work became a legacy in part of the Harlem Renaissance and he decided to remove himself from the Negro praise. It is disappointing to grasp that he joined the Quakers and missed out on