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Comparing 'Any Human To Another' By Countee Cullen
when comparing post modern writing and harlem writing, being in different times can be very similar. they are both somewhat having to do with war, maybe from different perspectives or personalities, but war all the same.

comparing "any human to another" by Countee Cullen, and cut, because they both have a sort of depressing and dark feel about them. Most likely relating to war and sorrow, "...My thumb instyead of an onion. Top quite gone except for a sort of hinge of skin... Dead white." this quote from "cut" is symbolizing the pain of war, and how you can go from at-home things like cutting an onion and cooking to being cut. Comparing to "any human to another" which also has dark times and pain, "The ills i sorrow at... Like an arrow, pierce

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