The African-American poetic response to racial prejudice : a study of brown and hayden

Abstract EN

The African- American poetics is affected by a complex and deeply rooted philosophy of the double consciousness created by W.

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Du Bois(1868-1963) which is the feeling of being Americans and African Americans.

This feeling has a great impact on the African -American poets.

It influences the way in which African- American poets react to racial preconception.

However, the present paper is aimed at showing the nature of the African -American poetic response to race.

The paper deals with selected poems by Sterling Allen Brown( 1901-1989) and Robert Earl Hayden(1913-1974).

The study concludes that the African- American poetic response to racial abuse is based on how each poet regards race.

The African- American poetics is affected by a complex and deeply rooted philosophy of the double consciousness created by W.

E.

B.

Du Bois(1868-1963) which is the feeling of being Americans and African Americans.

This feeling has a great impact on the African -American poets.

It influences the way in which African- American poets react to racial preconception.

However, the present paper is aimed at showing the nature of the African -American poetic response to race.

The paper deals with selected poems by Sterling Allen Brown( 1901-1989) and Robert Earl Hayden(1913-1974).

The study concludes that the African- American poetic response to racial abuse is based on how each poet regards race.