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- - - - The Dead Is a part of a larger body of work, Dubliners, In which Joyce discusses his homeland of Ireland and how It has changed over the years and how that has affected him personally. He believes the city Is stuck In paralysis; one way he shows this Is through the failure he feels to make meaningful connections with those who still live there.
  - - - Another thought to this is the growing Idea of a stay-at-home-mom, or a women who is in charge of staying home and running the household while the man goes and makes a living for the family. Here, the man makes all the decisions and the women is left behind with a feeling of loneliness or, oftentimes, literal Isolation. This dymanic between man and wife may be another system that HD could be hinting towards.
- - - - This poem and this novel were written during the Harlem Renaissance, or a time In history when work by black artists was under more of a spotlight than ever. Many African American artists believed they should make their work as appropriate as possible In order to appease a wider audience, but Hughes wanted to show black culture for all that It was. This resulted In poems like this that are not deemed appropriate for all readers. A similair thing happened for Hustron, who also decided In the end to tell the story how she wanted to without concern for the scope of readers for her novel.
        
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