Did you know Paul Laurence Dunbar was the first black writer to try and make a living off of writing("bio")? Dunbar gives a good example of English dialect in most of his poems, Dunbar's work is read by whites and blacks in the turn-of-the-century America. Dunbar writings are famous for many reason for example the time period he started writing in, how influential his work is to many people around the world during his time and the 21 century("poetry foundation"). On June 27, 1872 The first African
Caged Bird” a poem by Maya Angelou and “Sympathy” a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar are works of renowned African American poets that share striking similarities, but yet convey slightly different messages. Paul L. Dunbar’s “Sympathy” precedes Maya Angelou “Cage Bird” by 84 years. It was this poem that inspired the title to her first autobiography “I know why the Cage Birds Sings”. These two writers were from two different generations and utilize the same images of a bird in a cage to communicate
Sympathy this world is the signification of pity and sorrow for a person’s misfortune being empowered by compassion. In Paul Laurence’s poem titled sympathy he is referring to the enslavement and segregation. Coming from a time where African American didn’t have rights and were being enforced from this separation of different racial groups, communities, class, establishments in the country or by other discrimination means. Sympathy is in a sense the word that could describe this era in the poem
Zoran Neal Hurston and Paul Laurence Dunbar were both African American Literary writers.The writings of each author reflected their views of life and the world through their eyes. Zora was born in 1891 and died in 1960. Paul was born in 1872 and died in 1906. Each writer’s life covered a different era. Differences exist in how each writer portrayed their freedom In Zora’s piece “How it Feels to Be Colored Me”, she regards her life as being freer than her white contemporaries. She embraces the fact