Walt Whitman and 19th century voices (Derek)
This Whitman poem begins by celebrating the speaker's own self and declaring, "I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
What is “Song of Myself”?
In “Puertoricanness” by Aurora Levins Morales, what did the narrator use as a symbol of the culture from their motherland?
What is a Rooster?
____ was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s and a lasting voice on American culture and the fight for Civil Rights through the 1960s.
Who is Langston Hughes?
“Beat! Beat! Drums” by Walt Whitman was written about this American War.
What is the Civil War?
In her 2021 inaugural poem, this writer described America as “unfinished,” urging the nation to keep striving toward a more purposeful union.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
The speaker of this Whitman poem describes their daily duties tending to the injured during the Civil War.
What is “The Wound-Dresser”?
In "America and I” by Anzia Yezierska. She compares immigrants' hopes of America to this imaginary thing. What is it?
What is Utopia?
______ wrote “I’ve Known Rivers,” a poem connecting rivers to the history of African and African American people.
Who is Langston Hughes?
In “Facing It,” Komunyakaa describes seeing his own reflection in this while looking at the memorial.
What is the black polished stone of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial?
In this Hemingway story, an American man and his companion wait at a train station in Spain, discussing a “simple” procedure without ever naming it.
What is "Hills Like White Elephants"?
According to this Dickinson poem, the truth should be delivered in an indirect manner.
What is “Tell All the Truth But Tell it Slant”?
In “ The Schools Days of an Indian Girl.” by Zitkala-Sa Shingled hair meant Cowardice in her culture, which made the punishment very traumatic.
What is getting her hair cut?
This decade saw the height of the Harlem Renaissance and Hughes’s early influence.
What is the 1920's?
This 9/11–related poem series by Holman and others captures voices and experiences inside the World Trade Center buildings.
What are “Tower One” and “Tower Two”?
_____writes, “For while we have our eyes on the future, ________.” This phrase emphasizes the importance of remembering the past while striving forward.
Who is Amanda Gorman?
The speaker of this short Dickinson poem is fascinated by the final expression on the face of a dying person, noting the sudden awareness in their final moments.
What is “I Like a Look of Agony” ?
In “ The School Days of an Indian Girl.” by Zitkala-Sa, she stated that on her summer days back home, she felt stuck between both cultures “neither a wild indian” nor a?
What is a tame one?
What poem is sometimes known by the alternate title, “A Dream Deferred”
What is "Harlem"?
Espada’s “Alabanza” honors the workers from this union who died while working at Windows on the World.
What is the Local 100 (kitchen, cafeteria, and restaurant workers)?
This poem uses reservation basketball as a metaphor for youth, identity, and resilience, blending athletic grace with cultural memory.
This Whitman poem argues that the true visceral experience of the war will never fully be captured in historical books.
What is “The Real War Will Never Get in the Books”?
In "America and I” by Anzia Yezierska. The narrator's teacher recommends that she join an organization to help “working girls find themselves” . What organization is this?
What is the Women's Association?
“I, Too” ends with the speaker imagining a future of pride and inclusion, symbolized by being allowed at this place.
What is "The American Table"?
In “Tower Two,” this item is described as falling from the building and striking the street below, showing the physical devastation of the attack.
What is a bookcase/debris?
This female character in the story jokingly compares distant hills to a certain large, pale animal, a remark that opens a window into her emotional state.
Who is Jig?