From the Dark Tower
Author: Countee cullen
the poem the dark tower by Countee Cullen is a dark and somewhat uplifting poem about being sad and depressed. lines such as "we were not made to eternally weep" is telling people to not go down a depressing road because of the consequences it can have on your life.
Saturday's Nights Child
Author :Countee Cullen
Focuses on having a kid and the struggles that come with it especially if your poor and dealing with financial issues Countee Cullen echos as he talks about bad time for planting a seed and such lines as one more mouth to feed, definitely a must read poem especially if you want something good to read and like analyzing poems for their inner meaning and ideas. Want a good insight about poverty in its works and how bad it can be.
A Brown Girl Dead
Author: Countee Cullen
A dark poem about the death of one girl,the poem mainly discusses how beautiful the girl was with the line of ," Dark Madonna". One could also interpret the poem to have a racial side to it. This is because of the time when Countee wrote the poem, there was a lot of racism so it could describe how any skin color can be beautiful.
Incident
Author: Countee Cullen
-Incident could be described as a poem to get the reader thinking about the struggles that African-Americans had to go through. In the poem it said "... and called me, 'Nigger'... That's all that I remember". You can see the racism that they had to go through during that time like being called degrading names as such.
Fruit of the Flower
Author: Countee Cullen
-A poem that could be described as being unaccepted by your parents because you're different than them. However, the speaker for both the parent disagree and say that he represents both of them even if they don't believe so. Really a poem that gets you thinking about being accepted with others or not fitting in.
Author: Countee cullen
the poem the dark tower by Countee Cullen is a dark and somewhat uplifting poem about being sad and depressed. lines such as "we were not made to eternally weep" is telling people to not go down a depressing road because of the consequences it can have on your life.
Saturday's Nights Child
Author :Countee Cullen
Focuses on having a kid and the struggles that come with it especially if your poor and dealing with financial issues Countee Cullen echos as he talks about bad time for planting a seed and such lines as one more mouth to feed, definitely a must read poem especially if you want something good to read and like analyzing poems for their inner meaning and ideas. Want a good insight about poverty in its works and how bad it can be.
A Brown Girl Dead
Author: Countee Cullen
A dark poem about the death of one girl,the poem mainly discusses how beautiful the girl was with the line of ," Dark Madonna". One could also interpret the poem to have a racial side to it. This is because of the time when Countee wrote the poem, there was a lot of racism so it could describe how any skin color can be beautiful.
Incident
Author: Countee Cullen
-Incident could be described as a poem to get the reader thinking about the struggles that African-Americans had to go through. In the poem it said "... and called me, 'Nigger'... That's all that I remember". You can see the racism that they had to go through during that time like being called degrading names as such.
Fruit of the Flower
Author: Countee Cullen
-A poem that could be described as being unaccepted by your parents because you're different than them. However, the speaker for both the parent disagree and say that he represents both of them even if they don't believe so. Really a poem that gets you thinking about being accepted with others or not fitting in.
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