A Poet's Mind, Exercises II A

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Exercises A . (Bla ckn ess in 1 cl poetry) I seems that nobody can give a full y defensible definition o Blac poetry. Some, howve , with a tir eless will s understan able as rel i ; i ous im patience, have hea te d pages of print in their attempt s to do so. Av i i oc s and ditches i n th i s unsafe land, let us stand poets, as o pos ed t o historians, oul con ider fair iddle ground: lack A mer ican poetry is poetry ri tten y Blac k i me ricans. But in order that t eir r ace might lose none of its past, Black authors would accept a racial la el placed upon certain s tyles of speech and thought, upon certain habits, and upon a long rain of acts and events hat, i nside and outside their poems, pr es ve their ancestral li e. 0. " Emm e tt T ill": What words show tbe murder a. s a future lege ? "bed ime story / f the fa ir y / River B y" 1 . " egri tude 11 : W b· is the 11 Black cross of swea t" ? WW hta wa s i ts imports nee in history? word or brief phrase t o equ 1 e c line of st. 2, t he "the-ness" denied by the poem. ef end thr ee metaphors use f or 1olcolm X. 4. " hi tey": Wha t areas s of interracial life are glimpsed? 5. " a nther": "cracker-back" describes Chicago cops how? 6. II overcome": hat do the woman, girl, and men share?

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James A. Emanuel's draft of Exercises II for students reading his textbook A Poet's Mind. These exercises focus on Black Poetry.

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