Mending a Wall

Mending a Wall is a very thought out poem. It takes you to a farm where every winter this wall that divides Robert and his neighbor falls apart a little. And every spring Robert and his neighbor fix it but never speak more than that.
"But at spring mending-time we find them there.
I let my neighbour know beyond the hill;
And on a day we meet to walk the line
And set the wall between us once again.
We keep the wall between us as we go."
So eventually Robert asks why they built this wall? He has apple trees that would never grow onto his neighbors pines. When Robert asks his neighbor his neighbor replies " Good fences make good neighbours.” When you look at that quote from the neighbor it doesn't really make sense because if they had a good fence then they would never talk and never see each other.

A Dream Deferred

A Dream Deferred is a good example of both the Harlem Renassaince and Disillusionment. Hughes talks about how the American Dream is made out to look so good and so easy, but it's not, and it doesn't reach many of the people. Through the Poem Hughes is asking the reader about the American Dream deferred " Does it stink like rotten meat? " Another thing I really enjoyed about this poem is its rhyme scheme. The rhyme scheme used makes reading the poem so much more interesting and makes things stick a lot easier.
"Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?"

Incident

I really liked the poem Incident because it really flowed and I could almost hear Cullen saying it in my head. Incident is a good example of the Harlem Renaissance. In the poem Cullen gets called a nigger by a white kid the same age as him and for no reason. Being a kid that had to have been a horrible incident. He was just being nice and smiling and the other kid didn't even know him but judged immediately just for being black. Cullen says at the end of the poem that out of all the time he was in Baltimore that was all he remembered.
" saw the whole of Baltimore
From May until December;
Of all the things that happened there
That's all that I remember. "

The Negro Speaks of Water

This poem written by Langston Hughs is from the Harlem Rennassaince. In this poem Hughs is speaking of himself has his black anscestors and what they've been through. He writes about how black people were the first people to walk the earth and they've now made there way to America.
" bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it,
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln
went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy
bosom turn all golden in the sunset."

Richard Corey

Richard Corey is an example of dissillussionment. When you read you can tell that the author Edwin Robinson wanted you to feel good about the working class. In the poem Edwin sees this super rich guy every day named Richard Corey, and when he sees him he thinks he wants to be just like him.
"And he was rich—yes, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine, we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place."
So Edwin starts to work real hard so he can be rich one day. Cuts back on what he wants "And went without the meat, and cursed the bread" in hopes of getting the American Dream. When in the end Richard Corey shoots himself in the head. What Edwin wanted to say by Richard Corey killing himself was that even though rich people may seem like they have it all, they don't and probably aren't happy.

Modernism: Jelly bean response

I really enjoyed reading jelly bean one because it was a good story and two it was easy for me to read. This is the first story I have read for the literature projects that has been in modern style english. In the story jelly bean the main character is Jim "Jelly-bean." I really like Jim through the whole story because he's kind've a laid back avoid complication kind've guy. When he's invited to a party he tries to stay out of the way but ends up stealing the show winning money and a kiss from the hottest girl in town.

I like how in the end of the story things don't go Jelly Bean's way, and the hot girl (Nancy Lamar) goes and marries her boyfriend, because that's the way it would work in real life. Though it would've made a beautiful ending it would've been fake. Hot Girls don't just leave their big bulky boyfriends for nobodys when they get drunk at partys. F. Scott Fitzgerald did a really good jod delivering a "real" story.

Modernism: Jazz Age

I am most interested in the Jazz Age because it seems to be the coolest topic. The Jazz Age just has that rebel feel to it. The Jazz Age to me seems like the first time people really started living the fast pace life most Americans live today. Having to sneak around the governments back to drink alcohol and dancing to jazz music really made the people of this time into rebels. I think that the Jazz Age type literature will be kind've angry but at the same time really cool.