tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473573478104467483.post4996051953264090943..comments2024-02-03T12:32:21.678-08:00Comments on Jack Mandora's: Claude McKay, Poet Extraordinaire-1J.Mhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13528069268393747601noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473573478104467483.post-21079954087204430872008-10-28T19:21:00.000-07:002008-10-28T19:21:00.000-07:00this man writes about flowers like he's doling out...this man writes about flowers like he's doling out lyrics to a lover... simply beautiful! Somewhere in my future life, i wanna write like that!!ruthibelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14478877906463303463noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473573478104467483.post-91610023354688174272008-10-24T20:02:00.000-07:002008-10-24T20:02:00.000-07:00Welcome Jamaican Dawta, We learnt quite a number o...Welcome Jamaican Dawta, <BR/>We learnt quite a number of poems like in primary school. I don't remember being forced to memorise any in high school. Remember this one?<BR/><BR/>I Wonder, By Jeannie Kirby. <BR/>Iwonderwhythegrassisgreen andwhythewindisneverseen<BR/>da-da-dam-dada-dam <BR/>da-da-dam-dada-dam.<BR/><BR/>Then there was<BR/><BR/>Nature, by H.D Carberry<BR/><BR/>We have neither Summer nor Winter<BR/>Neither Autumn nor Spring.<BR/>We have instead the days<BR/>When the gold sun shines on the lush green canefields-<BR/>Magnificently.<BR/>The days when the rain beats like bullets on the roofs<BR/>And there is no sound but the swish of water in the gullies<BR/>And trees struggling in the high Jamaica winds.<BR/>Also there are the days when leaves fade from off guango trees<BR/>And the reaped canefields lie bare and fallow to the sun.<BR/>But best of all there are the days when the mango and the<BR/>logwood blossom<BR/>When the bushes are full of the sound of bees and the scent of<BR/>honey,<BR/>When the tall grass sways and shivers to the slightest breath of<BR/>air,<BR/>When the buttercups have paved the earth with yellow stars<BR/>And beauty comes suddenly and the rains have gone.<BR/><BR/>Did it do us harm or good that they made us learn these poems?<BR/><BR/><BR/>Yes Del,<BR/>Thanks for that list, I do not know who are the other writers of the Harlem Renaissance, I could only think of Langston Hughs. Your list will help me with my research. I will be getting to the poems that brought him accaim, like those two you mentioned. Stay tuned!<BR/><BR/>Stephen,<BR/>Claude Mckay's influence was far-reaching to say the least, and with good reason. More soon.J.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528069268393747601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473573478104467483.post-16196278990646626982008-10-24T13:32:00.000-07:002008-10-24T13:32:00.000-07:00The Harlem Renaissance would have to be called som...The Harlem Renaissance would have to be called something else without the works of writers like Claude McKay. He was fantastic.Stephen A. Besshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13608563855643263599noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473573478104467483.post-4068236828127010782008-10-24T07:31:00.000-07:002008-10-24T07:31:00.000-07:00Reading your post on Claude McKay brings me back t...Reading your post on Claude McKay brings me back to my coming of age days in the 1960's and 1970's. A time when when I was reading about the Harlem Renaissance; reading James Baldwin, Amiri Baraka, James Weldon Johnson,Claude McKay and feeling especially proud of my heritage. Two of his writings especially moved me...If We Must Die and The Lynching. Thanks for the good memories.Daisy Soap Girlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15422975436369155824noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473573478104467483.post-22606011232256849622008-10-24T06:46:00.000-07:002008-10-24T06:46:00.000-07:00Oh yes, I remember. In fact, I blogged about him a...Oh yes, I remember. In fact, I blogged about him and two of his poems a while back. :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473573478104467483.post-33573556378282283172008-10-23T18:21:00.000-07:002008-10-23T18:21:00.000-07:00Hi GG,I continue to enjoy your blog, especially th...Hi GG,<BR/>I continue to enjoy your blog, especially the fact that you use the Guyanese dialect. You and jdid do an excellect job writing in your dialects. <BR/><BR/>But on to your question. No Claude Mckay did not write "Song of the Banana Man" Evan Jones did. That's another well loved poem.<BR/><BR/>Abeni,<BR/>Yes, that's a picture of it at the top. It's actually a weed that grows wild in the countryside. People do their best to keep it out of their gardens. I makes good rabbit food for people who rear them. But it's such a part of the landscape here that if you went away from home for a while, it's likely to be one of the sights that your memory would easily conjure up.J.Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13528069268393747601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473573478104467483.post-20257924272825760592008-10-23T17:52:00.000-07:002008-10-23T17:52:00.000-07:00Spanish needle is a flower?Spanish needle is a flower?Abenihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08560160141820956066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2473573478104467483.post-74024426674119826472008-10-23T10:05:00.000-07:002008-10-23T10:05:00.000-07:00It does bring back innocence and idyllic times, do...It does bring back innocence and idyllic times, doesn't it?<BR/><BR/>Did he write a poem about the banana man?neena maiya (guyana gyal)https://www.blogger.com/profile/01358313821005038118noreply@blogger.com