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Black Arts Movement
AP Literature Poetry PresentationItchel Coker John MischIgnacio Salas Jezner TapiaPeriod 2
Definition of Movement Created during the Civil Rights movement in the
1950’2 and 1960’s Associated with the Black Power movement Wanted for a faster pace to changes during the Civil
Rights movement Poems are a challenge, sometimes aggressive, to the
White establishment Political focus on civic change for racial equality Associated with the Black Power notion and
movement Other Blacks to take up arms in poetry and fight in
the war of the words Popular food in the 1960s and 1970s were
characterized with suburban, vegetarian, and ethnic bias
General Poetic Techniques & Themes Tone Repetition Personification Imagery Theme: Opposition towards racial inequality Diction Symbolism Allusion Conceit Assonance
Black Art Poets
Nikki Giovanni
Amiri Baraka
Ntozake ShangeSonia Sanchez
Poem Analysis#1: Ntozake Shange
Was originally named Paulette WilliamsBorn on October 18, 1948 in Trenton, New Jersey At age 8 moved to St. Louis At age 13 moved back to New Jersey Graduated Barnard College cum laude in American studies Earned Master's degree at UCLA Married and divorced in first year of college Fails suicide and loses all hope in life Jumps back up in 1971 and changes her name Ntozake means “she who has her own things” and shange means “he/she who walks/lives with lions” Most Notable Works: People of Watts,
you are sucha fool, I Live in Music (1994), Nappy Edges (1978)Plays: A Photograph: Lovers-in-Motion (1977), Three for a Full Moon (1982), Daddy Says (1989).
People of Watts by Ntozake Shangewhere we come from, sometimes, beauty/ floats around us like clouds/ the way leaves rustle in the breeze/ and cornbread and barbecue swing out the backdoor/ and tease all our senses as the sun goes down/
dreams and memories rest by fences/ Texas accents rev up like our engines/ customized sparkling powerful as the arms/ that hold us tightly black n fragrant/ reminding us that once we slept and loved/ to the scents of magnolia and frangipani/ once when we looked toward the skies/we could see somethings as lovely as our children's/ smiles white n glistenin' clear of fear or shame/ young girls in braids as precious as gold/ find out that sex is not
just bein' touched/ but in the swing of their hips the light fallin cross/ a softbrown cheek or the movement of a mere finger/ to a lip many lips
inviting kisses southern/ and hip as any one lanky brother in the heat/ of a laid back sunday rich as a big mama still/ in love with the idea of love how we play at lovin'/ even riskin' all common sense cause we are as fantastical/ as any chimera or magical flowers where breasts entice/ and disguise the racing pounding of our hearts/ as the music that we are/ hard core blues low bass voices crooning/ straight outta Compton melodies so pretty they nasty cruising the Harbor Freeway/ blowin' kisses to strangers who won't be for long/ singing ourselves to ourselves Mamie Khalid Sharita/ Bessie Jock Tookie MaiMai Cosmic Man Mr. Man/ Keemah and all the
rest seriously courtin'/ rappin' a English we make up as we along/
turnin' nouns into verbs braids into crowns/ and always fetchin' dreams from a horizon/ strewn with bones and flesh of those of us/ who didn't make it whose smiles and deep/ dark eyes help us to continue to see/ there's so much life here.
Literary Devices: People of Watts Diction: the choice of wording that the author uses in a work of literature. EX: ...find out that sex is not just bein' touched/... ...smiles white n glistenin' clear of fear or shame/...
Personification: the animation of inanimate objects to portray a greater meaning in a poem. EX: ...dreams and memories rest by fences/... Allusion: a reference to things outside the work. EX: ...as any chimera or magical flowers where breasts entice/...
Poem Analysis#2: Sonia Sanchez
Born Wilsonia Benita Driver in Birmingham, Alabama on September 9, 1934
Graduated from Hunter College with a B.A in Political Science
Former member of the Nation of Islam organization but left after her views on women’s rights conflicted with the their views
Advocate of the people and part of CORE (Congress of Racial Equality)
Writings and works focused on the struggles and lives of Black America
Informal diction used in work to get her point across
Most Notable works: Ballad, A Blues Book for a Blue Black Magic Woman, Broadside Press, 1974, Wounded in the House of a Friend, Beacon Press, 1995,Plays: The Bronx is Next (1970), Black Cats and Uneasy Landings
Ballad by Sonia Sanchez
forgive me if i laugh you are so sure of love
you are so young and i too old to learn of love.
the rain exploding in the air is love
the grass excreting her green wax is love
and stones remembering past steps is love,
but you. you are too young for love
and i too old.
once. what does it matter when or who, i knew
of love. i fixed my body
under his and went to sleep in love all trace of me
was wiped away
forgive me if i smile young heiress of a naked dream
you are so young and i too old to learn of love.
Literary Devices: Ballad Imagery: the creation of a picture in the mind of the reader through the use of words. EX: the rain exploding/ in the air is love/ the grass excreting her/ green wax is love
Personification: the animation of an inanimate object to convey a message.EX: and stones remembering/ past steps is love
Conceit: an interesting depiction of an event. EX: the rain exploding/ in the air is love
Free Verse: no rhyming scheme yet still traditional to its time.
Poem Analysis#3:Amiri Baraka
Amiri Baraka – Born on October 7, 1934 in Newark, New Jersey. Formerly known as “Leroi Jones”
Served in the Air force from 1954-1957, where he moved to the lower East Side of Manhattan and joined a circle of Greenwich Village artists, writers, and musicians.
In 1958, Baraka founded the Totem Press, publishing beat movement icons such as John Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg.
Married Hettie Cohen (1958-1965) and became joint editor of the Yugen Literary Magazine. Separated after Malcolm X’s assassination.
He helped found and direct the influential Black Arts movement which sought to move black writers away from western sensibilities and toward a more complete embrace of the black world.
Most Notable Works: Preface to a Twenty – Volume Suicide Note; Ka-Ba, An Agony. As Now., In memory of a Radio, and Wise I
Other Works (Plays) Include: The Slave, The Toilet and Dutchman
Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note: By Amiri Baraka (Leroi Jones)
Lately, I've become accustomed to the wayThe ground opens up and envelopes meEach time I go out to walk the dog.Or the broad edged silly music the windMakes when I run for a bus...
Things have come to that.
And now, each night I count the stars.And each night I get the same number.And when they will not come to be counted,I count the holes they leave.
Nobody sings anymore.
And then last night I tiptoed upTo my daughter's room and heard herTalking to someone, and when I openedThe door, there was no one there...Only she on her knees, peeking into
Her own clasped hands
Literary Devices: Preface to a Twenty Volume Suicide Note Tone – Depressed, Hopeless, and engulfed with Despair.
“Lately, I’ve become accustomed to the wayThe ground opens up and envelopes me
Each time I go out to walk the dog.”
Repetition: ”And now, each night I count the stars.And each night I get the same number.And when they will not come to be counted,” – Repeating of the word “and”
Personification - “The ground envelopes me” – Identifies ground enclosing him“ Broad edged silly music the wind makes…” – Wind creating nonsensical music
Imagery - “ Broad edged silly music”“ Tip-toed”“ Clasped hands”
Theme: African Americans are oppressed due to the harsh judgment given by the Whites.
Poem Analysis#4: Nikki Giovanni
She was born Yolande Cornelia Giovanni on June 7, 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee
She grew up in Lincoln Heights, an all-black suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio
She attended Fisk University in Tennessee and recieved a Bachelors in History
She then attended the University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University
She is a University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech (where she currently teaches poetry)
She has recieved 19 honorary doctorates and has been named Woman of the Year in several different magazines
The civil rights and black power movements has inspired her early work
Her writing has been inspired by African American artists and activists
Most Notable Works: Woman, Black Judgment (1968), The Women and The Men (1975), Black Feeling, Black Talk (1967)
Woman by Nikki Giovannishe wanted to be a blade of grass amid the fields but he wouldn't agree to be the dandelion she wanted to be a robin singing through the leaves but he refused to be her tree she spun herself into a web and looking for a place to rest turned to him but he stood straight declining to be her corner
she tried to be a book but he wouldn't readshe turned herself into a bulb but he wouldn't let her grow she decided to become a woman and though he still refused to be a man she decided it was all right
Literary Devices: WomanAssonance: the repetition of a vowel sound. EX: ...but he refused to be/ her tree... Imagery: the use of words and phrases to create a picture in the mind. EX: she wanted to be a blade/ of grass amid the fields Symbolism: the use of an item to portray the theme and message of the work. EX: she turned herself into a bulb/ but he wouldn't let her grow
AP style writing prompt1. In the poem Woman by Nikki Giovanni, figurative language is used
to illustrate the one-sided relationship between a young man and woman, with the latter not being satisfied enough. Carefully read the poem. Then write a well-developed essay analyzing the theme and compare or contrast the theme to another work of literature.
2. The poem Ballad by Sonia Sanchez implements figurative language and literary devices to develop a point about love. What do you suppose love is referred to? Annotate the poem and analyze the figurative language and literary devices then write a well-developed essay on what love is referred to.
3. Poetry can express an intense variety of emotion from different time periods. In the poem, “Ballad” by Sonia Sanchez, the piece revolves around a woman and her interpretation of wisdom and love. Carefully read this poem. Then construct an essay that would analyze the “bigger picture” of wisdom and love through the poems use of literary devices
Interactive Poetry Lesson
senses of heritage
my grandpa was a doughboy from carolinathe other a garveyite from lakewoodI got talked to abt the race & achievementbout color & propriety/ nobody spoke to me about the moon
daddy talked abt music & mama bout christiansmy sisters/ wealways talked & talkedthere was never quiettrees were status symbols
I've taken to fog/the moon still surprisin me
Resources http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sonia_Sanchez ww.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/147 www.afropoets.net/ntozakeshange3.html www.nsm.buffalo.edu/~sww/poetry/
shange_ntozake.html www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/445 www.nathanielturner.com/amiribaraka.htm http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikki_Giovanni www.nikki-giovanni.com/bio.shtml
Poets Movement Literary devices
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Who currently teaches poetry at Virginia Tech University?
Answer
200
This poet wrote I live in music and is renowned for earning a Master’s degree at
UCLA
Answer
300
This poet founded the Totem press and helped publish certain Beat movement
icons.
Answer
400
This poet broke away from the Nation of Islam due to conflicting views of
women’s rights.
Answer
100
When was the Black Arts movement?
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200
What were poems and works focusing on during the movement?
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What organization in the civil rights movement was Sonia Sanchez formerly
apart of?
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Answer
Name 3 famous civil rights leaders
400
Answer
100
The term used to describe an ingenious and fanciful notion or
conception and points to a striking parallel between two dissimilar things.
Answer
200
Nikki Giovanni states in her Woman: “She turned herself into a bulb/ but he
wouldn't let her grow” is an example of….?
Answer
Rain exploding…/ grass excreting her green wax…/stone remembering… are
examples of…?
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The focus of opposition of racial inequality in a work is an example of…?
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100
“you are so young and i too old to learn of love.”
Answer
200
she decided to become a woman
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Nobody sings anymore.
300
Answer
And then last night I tiptoed upTo my daughter's room and heard her
Talking to someone, and when I openedThe door, there was no one there...
Only she on her knees, peeking into
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Poets-100Nikki Giovanni
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Poets-200Ntozake Shange
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Poets-300Amiri Baraka
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Poets-400Sonia Sanchez
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Movement- 100Civil Rights Movement from1950’s to
1960’s
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Movement-200Opposition towards racial inequalityOpposition towards establishment of
White societyPolitically charged aggression towards
change in society
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Movement-300Nation of Islam
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Movement-400Martin Luther King Jr.Malcolm XW.E.B Du BoisRosa Parks Maya Angelou Jesse Jackson
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Literary devices-100Conceit
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Literary devices-200Symbolism
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Literary devices- 300Personification
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Literary devices- 400Theme
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Poems- 100Ballad by Sonia Sanchez
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Poems- 200Woman by Nikki Giovanni
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Poems- 300Preface to a twenty volume suicide note
by Amiri Baraka
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Poems- 400Preface to a twenty volume suicide note
by Amiri Baraka
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