1. Both Emily Dickinson and Paul Laurence Dunbar were somewhat traditional in their work. Compare and contrast Dickinson's "I'm nobody, who are you" and Paul Laurence Dunbar's "We Wear the Mask." Consider structure as well as content. Which made the most compelling statement?
2. Compare and contrast the narrator of Zora Neale Hurston's "How it Feels to Be Colored Me" and either Toni Morrison's main character, Sula, or Alice Walker's Dee.