AMERICA LITERATURE

1. SAN MARCOS UNIVERSITY AMERICA LITERATURE PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR School: Education Student: Elida cullanco menenses Teacher: Yony Cárdenas Cornelio

2. PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR (1872-1906) The first black American writer He was an influential poet of the late 19th and early 20th centuries

9. DOUGLASS by Paul Laurence Dunber Ah, Douglass we have fall'n on evil days, Such days as thou , not even thou didst know, When thee , the eyes of that harsh long ago Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways, And all the country heard thee with amaze. Not ended then, the passionate ebb and flow , The awful tide that battled to and fro ; We ride amid a tempest of dispraise . Now, when the waves of swift dissension swarm, And Honor, the strong pilot lieth stark, Oh, for thy voice high-sounding o'er the storm, For thy strong arm to guide the shivering bark, The blast-defying power of thy form, To give us comfort through the lonely dark.

15. AUDIENCE To his fellow African Americans To make them realize that changes need to be made, and that African Americans have to stand up and take charge - They have to fight for what they want: Equality New opportunities

17. This poem represents Realism because it talks about the things that happen to the slaves. It may not talk about those things directly, but Dunbar uses figurative language and symbolism to get his point across. Realism

18. Ah, Douglass we have fall'n on evil days, (a) Such days as thou , not even thou didst know, (b) When thee , the eyes of that harsh long ago (b) Saw, salient, at the cross of devious ways, (a) And all the country heard thee with amaze. (a) Not ended then, the passionate ebb and flow , (b) The awful tide that battled to and fro ; (b) We ride amid a tempest of dispraise . (a) Italian sonnets Divided into a group of eight lines, or octave, followed by a group of six lines, or sestet. The rhymes scheme.

20. What does the author try to say Douglass in the first two lines of the poem? ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ How had the country reacted to Douglass’ insights, according to line 5? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What do you think the word "the storm" means in line 11? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What do you think the word "bark" means in line 12? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

21. What three qualities of Douglass’ does the speaker then call for in lines 11-14? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Why do you think the author wrote about Douglass? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ What do you think is the main message of this poem? ____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________