Shoultz -- American Modernism: The Great Gatsby - Spring 2025: Poetry

E.E. Cummings

• "anyone lived in a pretty how town?" (1926)

Paul Laurence Dunbar

• "We Wear the Mask" (1895)

Langston Hughes

• “Mother to Son” (1922) 
• “Dreams” (1923) 
• “Let America Be America Again” (1936) 
• "I, Too"

Claude McKay

• "If We Must Die" (1919)
• “The Tropics in New York” (1920) 
• “America” (1920)

Carl Sandburg

• "Chicago" (1914)
• “Hope is a Tattered Flag” (1936) 

Langston Hughes from Poetry for Students

Langston Hughes “Let America be America Again” Source 1
Langston Hughes “Let America be America Again”: Source 2

“I, Too,” “Let America Be America Again” and “Mother to Son”

Claude McKay "The Tropics in New York" and other references , “The Tropics in New York” (second source)
"Claude McKay: Overview." 
"Claude McKay: The Evolution of a Conservative."
http://www.harlemshadows.org/supp_mckay_claude-mackay-describes.html
"McKay, Claude (1890–1948)." African American Writers 

Carl Sandburg "Hope,"