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Answer & Explanation:First this week we have three short but intense readings: “Not Waving but Drowning” (p. 458), “We Real Cool” (p. 500). and “Harlem” (p. 617). I mean for you to take the time to listen to these onYoutube. I am not saying you will like all three, but one or two of them I am sure you will. Read them several times, listen to them, and then answer the Discussion Board questions and discussions. As always be certain to reply to other students’ posts.First, which poem did you like the best? Why? What is “Not Waving but Drowning” (p. 458) about? If you watched the Youtube video did this help at all? In Brooks’ poem, she is writing about an attitude. What is the attitude she is writing about? Can you find that attitude today? Where? Are there words in Brooks’ poem you might have to look up? “Harlem” has always been a very popular poem. What is the mood conveyed by the poem? Do the words or images help create that mood? Are the similes vivid? Do these similes convey images or ideas or both? Please give examples for all of your responses–longer is better.You can find at google and youtube these three shorts, and please choice one post, reply this post.posts: “Not Waving but Drowing”post1.doc Harlem [Dream Deferred]post 2.doc
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I have to say I like “Not Waving but Drowing”. The reason is so simple that
American poems are too short and too simple to understand. I cannot fully explain
the meaning of “We Real Cool” and “Harlem”, but I can feel the author’s
disappoint and helpless from “Not Waving but Drowing”.
“Not Waving but Drowing” expressed the author’s opinion directly. The dead man
was still moaning, which could be explained that the dead man was not a real
dead man, but a man who did not have hope in the real life. In the line 5, the man
loved larking, but now he was dead. I assumed that the dead man was the author,
then, this sentence with strong emotion indicated that the author was helpless and
hopeless. I can feel the lice made the author a well-preserved body without desire
and emotion. Waving could be explained as asking for help, but the live did not
deserve to ask for help.
In my understanding about Brooks’ poem, she was showing her emotion to the
school. She did not want to leave school. The second sentence said, “We left
school” and the following poem talked about singing and drinking. The time plot
indicated that it was June, which was the graduate season. Considered all the plots,
I explained the poem as memories about school. The author expressed her missing
about the school. The last sentence said we die soon, which could be explained as
after we left school, the time would pass quickly, and our innocent and happy time
would die soon. I love my life in schools. I can meet new friends, respectful
teachers, and novel knowledge. “Thin” was a hard word to understand. I discussed
with others. including English native-speakers and other Chinese students. There
were two opinions about this “Thin”. Some people think “thin” meant losing body
weight, which caused by missing of school life and the hard work after leaving
school. Others think “Thin” could be drinks without alcohol, and the author
celebrated their graduation by singing and drinking. Those two ways are both
reasonable.
“Harlem” was also complicated and hard to explain. But the author used questions
to involve readers’ thinking into the poem.The last two sentences made me feel
like the author was over-stress that could not have more burden any more. If he
had more loads, he would explore. In my understanding, the author was
expressing his disappoints and tired caused by unreachable dream. He could not
attain his dream or goal following his plan, and the live was too heavy for him to
pursuit his dream.
The readings of these three poems help readers to understand the meaning.
Different tones and emotion could be expressed clearer by voice. The most
impressive one is “Not Waving but Drowing”. The stresses were put on “Drowing”,
and there were breaks before “Drowing”. This reading method more the mood
tenser, and made the situation heavire.
The poem I like the best was “Harlem [Dream Deferred].” The question “What
happens to a dream deferred?” is something I think everyone has thought about at
one time or another. What are the consequences of putting off my dream until
some other time. Will it simply die never to be visited again, or will it
flourish. Even worse, will it be something I carry with me my whole life like a
burden. I was fond of the imagery Hughes used and felt very connected to the
content, which is likely why I felt drawn to this one in particular.
“Not Waving but Drowning” is about someone who dies alone, unnoticed much by
those around him. The video definitely helped in my understanding. I was able
to grasp the different voices in the poem, as well as the “not waiving but drowning”
being a metaphor for people seeing someone who appears to be friendly and
cordial, but who is really very lonely and depressed on the inside. The video
helped me to tie it all together that the person had actually died, and that the
people around him were mistaken that it was the cold that killed him.
It’s obvious that Brooks is writing about the attitude not only of cool, but that they
were too cool for the establishment. They were skipping school because they felt
as if they were above the rules. That they didn’t have to conform to society. And
in their eyes, this made them cool amongst each other, and to those who would
observe their rebellious behaviors. The language is not too difficult to understand
in her poem, but I can see where younger readers today may not understand.
As stated above, “Harlem” was my favorite because of the more universal
message. The mood is a somber mood of someone who seems to see no way to
accomplish a dream, is therefor setting it aside, and wondering what will become
of it. The words for me that help create the mood are dry up, fester, stink, and
sags. They are all words that point to the fact that the speaker only sees the
dream dying or nagging at them forever, reminding them of what they gave
up. The similes are very vivid. When he says “Maybe it just sags like a heavy
load.”, it reminds me of performing a foot march in the Infantry. You have all of
your heavy gear on your back, weighing you down every step of the way, seemingly
getting heavier as you go. This is what that mental burden of a dream unfulfilled
feels like, it’s like this great weight hanging on your back. That for me made not
only a very vivid image in my head, but was also conveying that very strong
idea. The other similes in the poem do the same for me, I can smell the “rotten
meat” while I sense the dream withering away.
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