Unit 10
Rhythms in Poetry
From the Beat of Blues to the Sounds of Everyday Speech
Authors and Works 403
Overview Questions 405
Learning Objectives 406
Overview 406
Video Overview 407
Discussion Questions for the Video 409
Timeline 410
Author/Text Review 412
Robert Frost (1874-1963) 412
Questions 413
Web Archive 413
Carl Sandburg (1878-1967) 414
Questions 415
Web Archive 415
William Carlos Williams (1883-1963) 415
Questions 416
Web Archive 416
Ezra Pound (1885-1972) 417
Questions 418
Web Archive 418
H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) (1886-1961) 419
Questions 420
Web Archive 420
T.S. Eliot (1999-1965) 420
Questions 421
Web Archive 421
Claude McKay (1889-1948) 422
Questions 423
Web Archive 423
Genevieve Taggard (1894-1948) 424
Questions 425
Web Archive 425
Jean Toomer (1894-1967) 425
Questions 425
Web Archive 426
Langston Hughes (1902-1967) 427
Questions 428
Web Archive 428
Core Contexts 429
Harlem in the 1920s: The Cultural Heart of America 429
Web Archive 430
Questions 431
Orientalism: Looking Eastt 431
Questions 432
Web Archive 432
Primitivism: An Antidote for the Modern 433
Web Archive 434
Questions 436
Extended Contexts 436
Broadcasting Modernization: Radio and the Battle over Poetry 436
Questions 437
Web Archive 437
The New Negro and the Reconstruction of African American Identity 437
Questions 438
Web Archive 439
Assignments 439
Personal and Creative Responses 439
Problem-Based Learning Projects 440
Glossary 440
Selected Bibliography 442
Further Resources 443