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    A Study Guide for Countee Cullen's "Any Human to Another"
    A Study Guide for Countee Cullen's "Any Human to Another"
    A Study Guide for Countee Cullen's "Any Human to Another"
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    A Study Guide for Countee Cullen's "Any Human to Another"

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    A Study Guide for Countee Cullen's "Any Human to Another," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateAug 19, 2016
    ISBN9781535818575
    A Study Guide for Countee Cullen's "Any Human to Another"

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      Any Human to Another

      Countee Cullen

      1935

      Introduction

      Countee (pronounced count-tay) Cullen struggled throughout his artistic career to be regarded as a poet, instead of being categorized as a Negro poet. Earning fame during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, an artistic movement that originated in a section of New York City that was primarily populated by African Americans, Cullen was at the forefront of artists who gained national prominence during the 1920s and early 1930s. In Any Human to Another, Cullen discusses the human condition and the issue of equality. The poem is from Cullen’s last book of verse, The Medea, and Some Poems, published in 1935. Because Cullen was an African–American writer who often addressed racial themes, there is probably much about his experience of bigotry that influenced this poem, although racial issues are not directly mentioned. As the title indicates, Cullen believed that he was writing about a universal topic, and therefore the poem is not a study of any particular person, event, or

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