Tuesday, October 21, 2008

SA#8: Langston Hughes

Montage” isn’t a term usually applied to poetry; it’s a film term. A montage is a quick succession of shots that usually indicates compressed time. Here are some examples of montages:

From Disney’s Beauty and the Beast:



From Rocky:



(Funny how filming the learning process always seems to require a montage...)

Hughes calls this collection of poems Montage of a Dream Deferred. Write a paragraph in response to the following question:

How is the assigned selection similar to and different from a cinematic montage?

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