Rowan University Twentieth Century and Modernism Discussion

Twentieth Century and Modernism; Harlem Renaissance

Read the following, using the links provided here or in the weekly module in Canvas:

• Read W.E.B. DuBois, from The Souls of Black Folk: “Of Our Spiritual Strivings”

Langston Hughes: The Harlem Renaissance and Modernism

Read poems “Harlem,” “Let America be America Again,” “Mother to Son,” “The Weary Blues,” and “I, Too, Sing America”

1. Read T. S. Eliot “The Love-Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

DQ 9. Create your initial post on the DQ 9 Discussion Board in response to the following:

• In The Souls of Black Folk, in 1903, DuBois predicted that the problem of the 20th century would be the divisions between the races, “the color line.” Choose one of Hughes’s poems: decades later, what does Hughes’s speaker have to say about progress and “the color line”? 
• DQ 10. Create your initial post on the DQ 10 Discussion Board in response to the following:

What does Eliot seem to be suggesting about J. Alfred Prufrock, if this poem is supposed to be his “love song”? What are his chances for success and happiness in love, based on what you have seen in the text?