Comparing and contrasting how the music video and piece of literature utilize sensory details in their work.

A Essay that analyzes one music video or song and one poem, essay, or story. You are comparing and contrasting how the music video and piece of literature utilize sensory details in their work. In the essay, you must discuss all five senses (sight, sound, touch, taste, smell), and you can only select texts that we’ve studied this semester

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Choose one of the following music videos: 

• Beyonce – “Hold Up”

• Beyonce – “Formation”

• Lil Nas X – “Old Town Road”

• Nina Simone – “Four Women”

• Queen Latifah – “UNITY”

• Curtis Mayfield – “Superfly”

• Marvin Sapp – “The Best in Me”

• Paul Robeson – “Go Down Moses”

• Darius Rucker – “Wagon Wheel”

Choose one of the following pieces of literature:

• Phillis Wheatley’s “On Being Brought from Africa to America” 

• Phillis Wheatley’s “To S.M., a Young African Painter, On Seeing His Works” 

• Sojourner Truth’s “Ar’n’t’ I a Woman?”

• Booker T. Washington’s Up from Slavery Chapter 1 

• W.E.B. Du Bois’s “Criteria of Negro Art”

• Alain Locke’s “The New Negro” 

• George Samuel Schuyler’s “The Negro-Art Hokum”

• Claude McKay’s “Africa,” 

• Claude McKay’s “America” 

• Claude McKay’s “The Harlem Dancer” 

• Zora Neale Hurston’s “How it Feels to be Colored Me”

• Langston Hughes’ “Mother to Son”

• Langston Hughes’ “I, Too” 

• Langston Hughes’ “Song for Billie Holiday” 

• Langston Hughes’ “Harlem” 

• Langston Hughes’ “The Negro Artist and the Racial Mountain”

• Malcolm X’s The Autobiography of Malcolm X selections 

• Martin Luther King Jr.’s “Letter from Birmingham Jail”

• Audre Lorde’s “Zami: A New Spelling of My Name” 

• Amiri Baraka’s “Incident” 

• Sonia Sanchez’s “blk/rhetoric” 

• June Jordan’s “Poem about My Rights” 

• Nikki Giovanni’s “Beautiful Black Men”

• Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise” 

• Lucille Clifton’s “homage to my hips”