ENGL 125 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Carl Shapiro, Lucille Clifton, Red Summer (1919)
4 Mar 2019
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Poems are challenging the status quo all the time. Auden: poetry is the clever expression of mixed emotions , for poetry makes nothing happen, it survives in the valley of its making, where executives would never want to temper . Carl shapiro said there was no moral to poetry. Often gets caught up in the swirls of historical eddies and context. Eddy: movement of water, slow and circular. Born in jamaica, wrote about it early on. Red summer in 1919: race riots caused by: Companies hiring african americans to break strikes. Ww1, soldiers coming home and looking for jobs. Tone: sense that they will die, it is inevitable, but not completely certain. Even the people who are hunting us have to respect us for our nobility--which is an old way of thinking. Describes the way history repeats itself again and again. Emotional reaction to something that is rooted in culture, in history.
