Match the literary characteristics to their respective poets.

romanticizes the life of the laborer

looks forward to racial equality

uses repetition for emphasis

part of the Harlem Renaissance

avoids traditional poetic devices

describes a fragmented United States

T he poet who romanticizes the life of the laborers is Walt Whitman. Langston Hughes is the one who looks forward to racial equality. T. S. Eliot used repetition for emphasis. Walt Whitman also avoids traditional poetic devices and describes a fragmented United States.

1. Walt Whitman:

- romanticizes the life of the laborer: this is obvious if you take a look at his "A Song for Occupations" where he writes about workers and their perfect lives

- uses repetition for emphasis: particular words are often repeated in his poems so as to emphasize a meaning

- avoids traditional poetic devices: he is known for using unorthodox poetic devices that are not commonly found in poems, especially during the period he lived in (Transcendentalism)

2. Langston Hughes:

- part of the Harlem Renaissance: this refers to the black artists' movement, and given that Hughes was a person of color, he belonged in the movement

- looks forward to racial equality: because people of color were oppressed

- describes a fragmented United States: people still didn't see eye to eye about slavery and the position of black people