And the mother often says"don't be like n" when the children are bad. a frequent phrase from the father is, "look how well a white man does things." and so the word white comes to be unconsciously a symbol of all virtues. it holds for the children beauty, morality, and money. the whisper of "i want to be white" runs silently through their minds. this young poet's home is, i believe, a fairly typical home of the colored middle class. one sees immediately how difficult it would be for an artist born in such a home to interest himself in interpreting the beauty of his own people. he is never taught to see that beauty. he is taught rather not to see it, or if he does, to be ashamed of it when it is not according to caucasian patterns. in at least 150 words, discuss the unconscious symbol of whiteness that is examined in "the negro artist and the racial mountain." where does it come from, and why does it have the potential to be so damaging?

Read the excerpt from "a defence of poetry.” poetry thus makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world; it arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life, and veiling them, or in language or in form, sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news of kindred joy to those with whom their sisters abide—abide, because there is no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit which they inhabit into the universe of things. poetry redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man. which details from the excerpt provide more information about shelley’s idea that poetry "makes immortal all that is best and most beautiful in the world”? check all that apply. arrests the vanishing apparitions which haunt the interlunations of life sends them forth among mankind, bearing sweet news to those with whom their sisters abide no portal of expression from the caverns of the spirit redeems from decay the visitations of the divinity in man