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Song for Billie Holiday
What can purge my heart Of the song And the sadness? What can purge my heart But the song Of the sadness? What can purge my heart Of the sadness Of the song? Do not speak of sorrow With dust in her hair, Or bits of dust in eyes A chance wind blows there....
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THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS
I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to...
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The Harlem Renaissance
We 've been studying the Harlem Renaissance for more than a week now and here are some links and videos seen in class here's the website you have visited to answer the webquest: link And here's the shet we have done today: OUR HARLEM RENAISSANCE What...
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Ku Klux
I – The poem. The poem was written in the early 1920′s . It belongs to the section ” Magnolia Flowers ”. II – The title. ”Ku klux ” keeps referring to the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was a far-right organization founded in 1865 in the United States...
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Mother to son
Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners,...
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THE WEARY BLUES
1 Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, 2 Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, 3 I heard a Negro play. 4 Down on Lenox Avenue the other night 5 By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light 6 He did a lazy sway .... 7 He did a lazy sway .... 8 To the tune...
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Jacob Lawrence (Emilie-Fabien-Marion-Alexandre)
Jacob Lawrence "I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools... I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro." Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence was...
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"You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it" -Duke Ellington
It Don't Mean A Thing "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing It don't mean a thing all you got to do is sing It makes no difference If it's sweet or hot Just give that rhythm Everything you've got It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that...
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THE COTTON CLUB
Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson opened the Club De Luxe at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem in 1920. Owney Madden, a prominent bootleggerand gangster, took over the club in 1923 while imprisoned in Sing Sing and changed its name to the...
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NEGRO
I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. I’ve been a slave: Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean. I brushed the boots of Washington. I’ve been a worker: Under my hand the pyramids arose. I made mortar for the...
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Billie Holiday ( Mylène, Séverine, Marion. L)
Billie Holiday April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959 Billie « Lady Day » Holiday was born in Baltimore in 1915. She was an American jazz singer and songwriter. She knew a childhood very difficult to put into verse by rape, prostitution and passage in prison....
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Historical timeline
Here's the grid we have done in class: HISTORICAL TIMELINE : http://www.pbs.org:80/wnet/aalives/timeline/index.html DATE FACTS MORE INFORMATIONS 1619 The first African Americans arrive in Jamestown , Virginia and are puurchacd by the colony’s leaders...
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Madam and her Madam
I-/ The Poem Madam and Her Madam I worked for a woman, She wasn't mean-- But she had a twelve-room House to clean. Had to get breakfast, Dinner, and supper, too-- Then take care of her children When I got through. Wash, iron, and scrub, Walk the dog around--...
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To be somebody
TO BE SOMEBODY Little girl Dreaming of a baby grand piano (Not knowing there’s a Steinway bigger, bigger) Dreaming of a baby grand piano to play That stretches paddle-tailed across the floor, Not standing upright Like a bad boy in the corner, But sending...
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New Yorkers
New Yorkers Traduction: Je suis né ici, Ce n’est pas un mensonge, dit-il Juste ici, sous le ciel de Dieu. Je ne suis pas née ici, dit-elle Je viens – et pourquoi? Je viens, De parents qui travaillent dur Toutes leurs vies Jusqu’à ce qu’ils meurent Et...
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Lament over Love (Marion & Léa)
The poem: Part of Lament over Love, it has the same name as the part. The title: « Lament over Love » It’s composed of 3 words. « Lament » : The narrator complains about Love and the pain that Love can provoke.alliteration in "l" Time and Setting: - We...
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Baaba Djibo
The capture Baaba Djibo lived in a small village on the west coast of Africa. One day in June, 1837, as he was coming back to his village after visiting a sick aunt, he was captured by a band of African slave traders. He was then forcibly taken to a group...
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"I, too"
I-The poem The poem "I, Too" was written by Langston Hughes in 1924. The section: Words like freedom. II-Title « I, Too » has major importance, because it implicates that multiple races make up the face of America and not only whites. Langston wants to...
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Bienvenue sur OverBlog
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LITTLE OLD LETTER
It was yesterday morning I looked in my box for mail . The letter that I found there Made me turn right pale . Just a little old letter, Wasn’t even one page long— But it made me wish I was in my grave and gone . I turned it over, Not a word writ on the...
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Harlem Night Song
Poem In the « selected poems « it appears in the fourth selection entitled Sea and Land. Futhermore, in the part Sea and Land we can remark that Langston Hughes speaks about natural places , women , and different countries II. Title Harlem : where he...
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LOVER'S RETURN
My old time daddy Came back home last night. His face was pale and His eyes didn’t look just right. He says, “Mary, I’m Comin’ home to you So sick and lonesome I don’t know what to do.” Oh, men treats women Just like a pair o’ shoes You kicks ‘em round...
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Ballad of the Fortune Teller
I . THE POEM 1941 /1950 part of « lament over love » , series of « ballads » II. TITLE lament : a passionate expression of grief and sorrow ,a song, pièce of music or poem expressing such emotion,expression of regret, disappointment, a complaint. A ballad...
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October 16
October 16 I- The poem The poem was written between 1920 and 1930, It was published in 1931.It's one of LH's early poem. It belongs to the first selection entitled « Afro-American fragments » II- The Title By reading the title « October 16 », one may...
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Judgment day
Judgment Day They put ma body in the ground. Ma soul went flyin' o' the town, Went flyin'to the stars an' moon A-shoutin', God, I's comin' soon. O Jesus! Lord in heaven, Crown on his head, Says don't be 'fraid Cause you ain't dead. Kind Jesus! An' now...