Harlem by Walter Dean Myers5/28/2023 Alliteration, simile, imagery, and rhyme are just a few of the poetic devices used in this text to enhance the reader’s experience. Walter Dean Myers weaves history and culture into the language of his poetry. Walter Dean Myers and Christopher Myers fill this book with the sounds, sights, and spirit of those who came to Harlem. A collective “sound, a celebration, memories of feelings, a place”. And on the streets you can see “a carnival of children, stickball heroes, hide-and-seek knights and ladies, waiting to sing their own sweet songs, living out their own slam dunk dreams, listening for the coming of the blues.” Barbecues, fried fish joints, Sunday Night Gospel, collard greens. The voices of Langston, Countee, Du Bois, and Baldwin shape this city. A place where a man didn’t have to know his place simply because he was black.” Those who came to Harlem brought with them a song, first heard in the villages of Ghana and Senegal, and now left flowing through this city: “a new sound, raucous and sassy.” Religion, music, and art fill the souls of the people of this city as they hope, and pray, and sing, and paint, and write.
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