How do I compare and contrast "Theme for English B", and "Harlem"?We also have to compare and contrast theme and setting on the two poems chosen.

You will want to focus on the following, writing about a
paragraph for each:

Speaker's
Tone/Attitude: do both poems use a young black male speaker?  To what
effect?  Is his voice plain, sarcastic, dejected, angry?
 Why?

Imagery/Metaphor: to
what images, symbols, and metaphorical things does the speaker compare his
predicament?

Style: why does
the speaker use free verse style?  Are there musical/metrical qualities to the verse?
 Why so many rhetorical questions?  What are the implied answers to these
questions?

Theme: Are the
themes racial only?  What do they suggest about the socio-economic and racial relations
in America at that time?  In the educational system?  Is America and its schools the
land of opportunity?