VI. Reading Comprehension
Among the leading figure of the Harlem Renaissance,
Countee Cullen is the writer whose role in that movement is
most difficult to assess. This difficulty arises in part because his
poetry emulates the style and tone of nineteenth century English
Romanticism, but real complexity concerns his choice of subject
matter.
Cullen entered Harvard in 1925, to pursue a master in
English, about the same time his collections of poems, Color,
was published. Written in a careful, traditional style, the work
celebrated black beauty and deplored the effects of racism.
Cullen insisted on the freedom of the Black point to choose any
subject: he believed that a restricted concern with race was a
hindrance to the development of the Black artist, and he claimed
that there is poetry written by Blacks, but not a linguistic
category that could be called Black poetry.
Yet he was quick to add that for the Black poet, escaping
awareness of race was impossible, and Cullen was always in
some way writing about being Black. By suffusing an
essentially European literary tradition with race consciousness,
Cullen in his own way succeeded in doing what other writers of
the Harlem Renaissance were doing by experimenting with
Black folk forms: making a lasting contribution to the growth of
a distinctive African American voice.
【題組】48. The author suggests which of the following about
nineteenth-century English Romanticism?
(A) It had little or no stylistic influence on most writers of
the Harlem Renaissance.
(B) It was not heavily influenced by nineteenth-century folk
forms.
(C) It emphasized the freedom of the post to choose any
subject.
(D) It did not recognize the kinds of linguistic categories
accepted by writers of the Harlem Renaissance.
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