Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Volume 10 201 encompass the world with his words. Hughes re- peats several phrases (“I’ve known rivers,” “my soul has grown deep ...

202 Poetry for Students government agencies like the Federal Bureau of In- vestigation, the NAACP managed from it earliest years ...

Volume 10 203 felt emotion and appears to exist outside of time. These critics note, however, that the “I” in the poem represent ...

204 Poetry for Students on his way there to ask his father for college tu- ition when he wrote this poem. Although Hughes would ...

Volume 10 205 portantly, Hughes states in A Pictorial History of Black Americans, that “[b]lack Pharaohs ruled Egypt for centuri ...

206 Poetry for Students world civilization. Let them look back on a golden heritage, Hughes seems to say; let them speak of thes ...

Volume 10 207 memory of crossing the Bering Strait centuries ago—but more likely, he posits that he is part and parcel of every ...

208 Poetry for Students Source:Dean Rader, in an essay for Poetry for Students, Gale, 2001. Sarah Madsen Hardy Sarah Madsen Hard ...

Volume 10 209 The idea of civilization is important to both Cullen and Hughes. In the Harlem Renaissance, whites celebrated the ...

210 Poetry for Students peans. Cullen, in contrast, shows how this racist view has divided his consciousness and hindered his ab ...

Out, Out— “Out, Out—” was first published in the 1916 col- lection Mountain Interval.Both the description of a terrible accident ...

212 Poetry for Students Author Biography Robert Frost was born in San Francisco in 1874; his father, William, was a journalist a ...

Volume 10 213 That a boy counts so much when saved from work. His sister stood beside them in her apron To tell them “Supper.” A ...

214 Poetry for Students The speaker recalls the idea of the boy’s entering the world of adulthood when he calls him a “big boy / ...

Volume 10 215 “Don’t let him cut my hand off— The doctor, when he comes. Don’t let him, sister!” His subsequent death is met wit ...

216 Poetry for Students modulated to emphasize the importance of partic- ular words and ideas. (The best examples of mod- ulated ...

Volume 10 217 amored with many “old-style” poets, such as Thomas Hardy, Rupert Brooke, Carl Sandburg, and Edwin Arlington Robins ...

218 Poetry for Students Critical Overview Since the publication of his first book (A Boy’s Will) in 1913, Frost’s reputation and ...

Volume 10 219 The poem begins with the saw having, liter- ally, the first word—as it will figuratively have the last: The buzz s ...

220 Poetry for Students is, in a sense, a lie—an attempt (as above) to offer some rationale for the boy’s death. Unlike the spea ...