Claude Mckay Harlem Dancer

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In the poem Harlem Dancer, by Claude Mckay he uses metaphors and imagery to establish a specific tone that relates to the purpose and history of the Harlem Renaissance. On lines seven and eight Claude writes, “She seemed a proudly-swaying palm/ Grown lovelier for passing through a storm” In the quote above, Claude McKay wrote a metaphor comparing a proudly swaying palm tree to the African American women who is at a dirty club. She is singing and dancing to youths and young prostitutes. Here is comparing the palm tree to her because of the strength that he could see behind her mask. As well as the independence that she has, as an African American Women living in Harlem. All throughout the Harlem Renaissance African Americans were all seen

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