American Literature 4

Respond to each of the following prompts. Both responses should contain approximately 75-150 words.

1. In Langston Hughes’s poetry, what comment(s) is he making on what it means to be an African American during the Modernist movement?

2. What does Hurston mean by the metaphor, “The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said, ‘On the line!’ The Reconstruction said, ‘Get set!’ and the generation before said, ‘Go!’”

3. After reading all the selected works, what does the Harlem Renaissance mean to you?