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Compare And Contrast Arna Bontemps And Paul Laurence Dunbar

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Harlem Renaissance was an African-American movement in which writers pointed out racial consciousness in their writing. It brought out talented authors like Jean Toomer, Arna Bontemps and Paul Laurence Dunbar presented in their poems, the lives and struggles of African American in the early 1920s. They similarly expressed their feeling of bitterness by using oppression and suffering as themes for the poems. The authors portrayed how hard the life of the Black African slaves before was and showed how they dreamed for equality. Toomer used rhyming words in his poem “Song of thee Son”. He also used repetition of words and lines. He made song and nature as the same in the line, “Pour o pour that parting soul in song, and let the valley carry it

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