Alex Cooper Assignment 3

1.)   In "The Harlem Dancer," McKay uses imagery to shift the tone from joyous and hopeful, to despairing three-quarters of the way through the poem. In the beginning McKay uses phrases such as "Applauding youths laughed" (l.1), and "She sang and danced on gracefully and calm" (l.5), to create a light and happy mood. Then, in line 12, the mood shifts with image of the young boys and girls "devour[ing]" (l.12) her shape, and her "falsely-smiling face" (l.13) which shifts the tone to one of despair.

2.)  I agree with Amy Lowe in that, "Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in." I feel this is most similar to my belief about art because I think art is expression and therefore comes in an infinite amount of forms. When I think of art I don't just think of paintings or songs, i think of the clothes people wear and the things people say.