哈莱姆文艺复兴的遗产:女性诗人

遗留的诗:女性诗人的哈莱姆文艺复兴是压迫和种族歧视,家庭生活,梦想都实现,从未实现,感到无形的和女人拥抱他们的权力。格兰姆斯回应海琳约翰逊的“我不骄傲”(“我不骄傲,我大胆。或骄傲,我黑”)与“我说,”,鼓励读者说话和大胆。“对我来说,勇气是一种要求来作为我的黑人女孩包的一部分,连同我的无礼的话,和我胆大包天的hip-swing !”Her "Room for Dreams" ("With no limitations, my fantasies of a boundless future balloon inside my head") is a heartbreaking contrast to the woman in Alice Dunbar-Nelson's "I Sit and Sew," whose head is "weighed down with dreams." Grimes turns Esther Popel's poem "Flag Salute" about a lynching into "A Mother's Lament," that speaks of a woman's hope "to one day to be treated equal to the sons of the ones who shipped us naked to these shores, under freedom's flag." Ellie Lee Newsome thanks God she is brown ("Eagles are of this same hue") in "The Bronze Legacy (To a Brown Boy)," and Grimes writes in "Like An Eagle" that she "wouldn't trade my melanin skin for any other hue."