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Jessie Redmon Fauset. By: Heather Gialluca. Jessie Redmon Fauset. Born April 27 th 1882 in Snow Hill New Jersey. Editor, Poet, Essayist and Novelist. Attended Cornell and university of Pennsylvania for languages. Died: April 30 th 1961. Dead fires. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
JESSIE REDMON FAUSET
By: Heather Gialluca
Born April 27th 1882 in Snow Hill New Jersey.
Editor, Poet, Essayist and Novelist.
Attended Cornell and university of Pennsylvania for languages.
Died: April 30th 1961
JESSIE REDMON FAUSET
DEAD FIRES
Theme: Better to have loved in vain then to have not loved at all.
Tone: Prideful and not regretful
Technique: consonance,
L A V I E C
L A V I E C ’ E S T L A V I E
Translation: The life that is life.
Theme: The end of a relationship
Tone: Heart break
Technique: consonance, imagery, paradox
IMPORTANCE TO THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
She was the publication literary editor for The Crisis in 1919.
She encouraged other writers during the Harlem Renaissance such as Langston Hughes, Jean Toomer and Claude McKay.
La Vie C’est La VieHas a mood of heartbreak.
Has consonance.
Refers to a drawn out relationship, a loveless relationship.
LA VIE C’EST LA VIE AND DEAD FIRES
Dead Fires
Has of mood of pride.
Has consonance.
Refers to a bad love but not regretting it.