Poetry for Students, Volume 31

founded the Institute for the Study of Black Life and Culture, one of the earliest Black Studies for- mations in the nation and ...

Black and Freeis conscious of shaping an image of a writer as a feminist and radical thinker. The volume tells what Walker learn ...

rotten houses falling on slowly decaying humanity. The first person plural form is reserved for those moments when the self and ...

Ritterhouse, Jennifer,Growing Up Jim Crow: The Racial Socialization of Black and White Southern Children, 1890– 1940 , Universit ...

Losses ‘‘Losses,’’ by American poet Randall Jarrell, was first published in Jarrell’s second collection of poems,Little Friend, ...

he attended Vanderbilt University, majoring in psychology and graduating with a bachelor of arts degree in 1936. He then enrolle ...

And turned into replacements and woke up One morning, over England, operational. It wasn’t different: but if we died It was not ...

cities they had bombed. They had killed these people from afar, without ever having seen them. Those of the crew who had survive ...

stanza begins in exactly the same way that the first stanza began, with the denial of the fact of death. But when in the second ...

Style Iambic Pentameter The basic meter of the poem is iambic pentam- eter. An iambic foot consists of an unstressed or lightly ...

Tokyo, destroying about a quarter of the city and resulting, according to official reports cited by Ross, in 83,793 dead and 40, ...

book he knew about World War II. Barely remembered as a poet today, Kirstein is best known for the cultural influence he exerted ...

dreaming and dying.’’ For Suzanne Ferguson, at the end of the poem the flyer is starting to shake off his inability to accept th ...

rates show, the Superfortress was anything but a fortress. Because of the pressures of the war, it was rushed into production an ...

the average serviceman he encountered, and he was very conscious of this. He wrote to Margaret Marshall, literary editor of theN ...

central point of the text, informing even its title: ‘‘Losses’’ is a euphemistic military term denoting the amount of men and ma ...

One morning, over England,operational. It wasn’t different: but if we died It was not anaccidentbut amistake (But an easy one fo ...

inability to rationalize morally what he has done or to find an adequate language for it.... Source:Matthew B. Hill, ‘‘The Dream ...

characteristics—including experimentalism; heightened emotional intensity to the point of violence; obscurity and inaccessibilit ...

had ‘‘a pretty good time when I was flying,’’ but, since most of his fellow pilots were training for combat, he had to conclude ...