15. What is the poem about? *2 points
The poem is about baking corn bread and the authors mother making the meal and saying the blessing. It is essentially about the blessing of having your family with you and food on the table.
16. How does it reflect the concerns of the Harlem Renaissance? What characteristics of modernism are present? *3 points
It talks about food and how food is a blessing. In the poem, there is clear individualism present, and there is also experimentation.
Characteristics of Modernism:
- Individualism. In Modernist literature, the individual is more interesting than society.
- Experimentation. Modernist writers broke free of old forms and techniques.
- Absurdity. The carnage of two World Wars profoundly affected writers of the period.
