I really enjoyed our conversation today about Hughes’s “Democracy.” The message that racial equality shouldn’t have to be something that takes so long to attain really struck a chord with me, especially thinking about how behind we still are, however many years after that poem was written, judging people based on race and other qualities.
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Check out this other presentation of “The Weary Blues.” It was done by a group called Four Seasons Productions in their Moving Poetry Series, which you can look into here: http://www.4seasonsproductions.com/
YouTube says this one is narrated by Dr. Allen Dwight Callahan, an author and Harvard professor.
I wanted to extend a comment Alison made in my last post. I really like what she said about how she sees H. D.’s use of couplets to convey Modern messages as a woman working in the structures of a masculine world, in contrast to how I described H. D.’s style as a modern individual [...]
I know this post looks really long – I got a little carried away with H. D. But a lot of the space it takes up just contains sections of the poem reprinted, and I think you could probably just read a couple paragraphs anywhere in what I’ve written and still have something to [...]
After Dr. Scanlon mentioned that there’s a movie with H. D. in it, but it’s silent, I went searching for a recording of her voice. Here’s what I came up with. I’ll post my reaction in a comment so everyone has the opportunity to listen before reading my perspective. Take note that [...]