Beck Michul Assignment 3

1. In Claude McKay's The Harlem Dancer, the tone is a calm, happy, and relaxed one. This is shown through the many forms of rhyme including end rhyme, internal rhyme and slant rhyme (assonance and consonance). The sonnet uses a ABABCDCDEFEFGG end rhyme scheme which allows it to be easy to read, keeping the reader calm and happy. There are also many internal rhymes such as "To me she seemed...," because of the repeated 'ee' sound. Consonance is utilized in the line "She sang and danced on gracefully and calm...," as the 's' sound is repeated. All of these rhyme schemes make the poem seem more melodic and happier creating a nice and easy feeling tone.

2. "Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." --Amy Lowell

This quote most expresses the belief similar to mine because I feel that art is an expression of a person's emotions; conscious or subconscious. It's what the artist feels and wants to show and relate to all of the art's viewers.