Poetry for Students Vol. 10

Alabama Centennial “Alabama Centennial” is a poem from Naomi Long Madgett’s third book of poems, Star by Star,pub- lished in 196 ...

2 Poetry for Students member of the clergy, and her mother Maude Long was a teacher. Madgett published her first volume of poetr ...

Volume 10 3 ing so adds some complexity to the situation by showing different extents of the opposition: some asking for more ti ...

4 Poetry for Students Line 25: Here another activity that was central to the Civil Rights Movement is alluded to. In this case i ...

Volume 10 5 held “in bread lines, at back doors, on chain gangs / In stinking ‘colored’ toilets / And crowded ghet- tos, / Outsi ...

6 Poetry for Students don’t get weary.” The movement towards freedom is also a movement towards adulthood. The tired bones of th ...

Volume 10 7 discrimination in public accommodations linked to interstate commerce such as restaurants and hotels. In 1965, the V ...

8 Poetry for Students ding in Negro Digestas “a natural poet.” Redding also observed that “for all her metrical skill, her phras ...

Volume 10 9 tive sets up the entire poem. The reader is intro- duced to a litany of images. The order of these im- ages is impor ...

10 Poetry for Students Madgett is borrowing from this rhetorical tradition in the way she chronicles the events of the Civil Rig ...

Volume 10 11 desire for freedom and full rights of American cit- izenship is what fuels the fight for equality. The empowerment ...

12 Poetry for Students tensions in the United States had grown so high by then that just five days later, on August 11, a rou- t ...

Volume 10 13 hard to see how those chains could be character- ized as patient or acquiescent. No, this chain is an inner chain f ...

14 Poetry for Students The decade of the 1960s could have been a time for celebration. The United States could have seized upon ...

Volume 10 15 of gender. The list is as long as the people who will make it. That is why I find two of the most troubling lines o ...

Ballad of Orange and Grape Muriel Rukeyser wrote “Ballad of Orange and Grape” toward the end of her long career. The poem reflec ...

Volume 10 17 Author Biography. Rukeyser was born in New York in 1913 to Lawrence and Myra Rukeyser, a conservative and well-off ...

18 Poetry for Students Poem Summary. Lines 1-7 Introducing the speaker, the opening stanza uses the second-person voice, describ ...

Volume 10 19 pivotal because it introduces the poem’s central metaphor: “the usual two machines” for dispensing drinks, “the gra ...

20 Poetry for Students Themes. The poem tells a simple story about the speaker visiting a hot-dog stand in East Harlem. There th ...