References a Walt Whitman work
paradox of social
injustice
uses set meter and
rhyme scheme
symbol of wasted
efforts
uses free verse
Characteristic
cheap;
Excerpt
We shall not always plant while others reap
The golden increment of bursting fruit,
Not always countenance, abject and mute
That lesser men should hold their brothers
Not everlastingly while others sleep
Shall we beguile their limbs with mellow
flute,
Not
Not always bend to some more subtle
brute;
We were not made eternally to weep.
(From the Dark Tower by Countee Cullen)
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong,
(1, Too by Langston Hughes)
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