1. Please read Robert Frost’s poem, “Acquainted with the Night.” Explain what you think it means, and provide quotations from the poem to support your answer. Use a work overview from Literature Resource Center (UCC database) to help if you need it (NOT A WEBPAGE) 100 words 2. Read Robert Frost’s poem “Mowing” and the attached Work Overview about the poem: “Overview: ‘Mowing.'”Preview the documentDiscuss your understanding of the poem in comparison to the author of the Overview. Quote both the Overview and the poem in your discussion. 100 words 3. Watch the video, Voices and Visions: Langston Hughes (see below). Then choose one of the following poems to discuss. Consider what the narrator in the film says about the poem and discuss what you think it means. Link: https://www.learner.org/series/voices-visions/langston-hughes/ “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” “I, Too” “Let America Be America Again” “Harlem” 100 words 4. Please read Langston Hughes’ “Notes on Commercial Theatre.” (Link: https://www.poetrynook.com/poem/note-commercial-theatre) In it, he says that black authors and artists should represent black culture, and that although in his own time that is less possible, one day they will tell their own story.Choose a writer (or poetry, fiction, music) from the African American community who addresses the condition of people of color in the United States (someone writing in the last forty years) and compare that author to Langston Hughes. For example, you could choose a rap song that addresses issues of race, or a comedian, or a novelist who discusses race relations: how does it relate to what Langston Hughes wrote? Quote Hughes and the other writer in your response and cite all your sources using MLA Style. 100 words
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