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.