ENGLISH 45C Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: William Carlos Williams, Roast Beef, Pathetic Fallacy
Document Summary
Autobiography of an ex-colored man? what (cid:314) aecm (1912); coincides w/ the great migration when 1. 5 million african. Describes from a person of shared collectivity person; . Renaissance (born 1902-67); in poetry uses race memory (his own life traces diaspora) Race memory could unite diaspora in theory it seems remote or abstract to modern readers; needs way to make readers . Answer arrived at jazz (cid:314) 1926 (the eary blues by langston hughes); figure most associated w/ harlem (cid:314) skeptical of race memory (similar to yeats) Call and response (cid:314) poem functions as marker of diasporic collectivity; speaker already knows these blues and what it"s like to have them: Answer of knowing what the singer goes through is in the answer those eary blues (cid:314) speaker already knows the song ( eary blues is capitalized) (cid:314) ain"t got nobody in this world .
