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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.
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Jessie RedmonFauset By: Heather Gialluca
Jessie RedmonFauset • Born April 27th1882 in Snow Hill New Jersey. • Editor, Poet, Essayist and Novelist. • Attended Cornell and university of Pennsylvania for languages. • Died: April 30th 1961
Dead fires • Theme: Better to have loved in vain then to have not loved at all. • Tone: Prideful and not regretful • Technique: consonance,
LA Vie Cla vie c’est la vie • 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 vie and dead fires La Vie C’est La Vie • Has a mood of heartbreak. • Has consonance. • Refers to a drawn out relationship, a loveless relationship. Dead Fires • Has of mood of pride. • Has consonance. • Refers to a bad love but not regretting it.