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Carregando... The panther and the lash : poems of our timesde Langston Hughes
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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This is the first full collection of Hughes' works I've read; strange that I should find his last collection first. There are some excellent poems, mostly inspired by the civil rights issues of the time. Some of the context is lost on me and I'd probably benefit from a critical edition with footnotes. ( ) “The Panther and the Lash” (1967) was Langston Hughes’ final book, published in the last year of his life. While some of this collection had been published in previous decades, the book reads as powerful 1960’s Civil Rights poetry – filled with moral outrage for centuries of oppression and with references to events such as the Birmingham church bombing in 1963 that killed four little girls. “I am the American heartbreak - the rock on which Freedom stumped its toe” says Hughes. Heartbreak, indeed. Quotes: From “Death in Yorkville” “From the slave chain to the lynch rope To the bullets of Yorkville, Jamestown, 1619 to 1963: Emancipation Centennial – 100 years NOT free.” From “Frederick Douglass: 1817-1895” “To all the world cried, Hear my voice! ... Oh, to be a beast, a bird, Anything but a slave! he said. Who would be free Themselves must strike The first blow, he said. He died in 1895. He is not dead.” From “Words Like Freedom” “There are words like Liberty That almost make me cry. If you had known what I know You would know why.” From “Freedom” “I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I’m dead. I cannot live on tomorrow’s bread.” Children’s Rhymes By what sends the white kids I ain’t sent: I know I can’t be President. What don’t bug them white kids sure bugs me: We know everybody ain’t free. Lies written down for white folks ain’t for us a-tall: Liberty and Justice – Huh! –For All? Dinner Guest: Me I know I am The Negro Problem Being wined and dined, Answering the usual questions That come to white mind Which seeks demurely To probe in polite way The why and wherewithal Of darkness U.S.A. – Wondering how things got this way In current democratic night, Murmuring gently Over fraises du bois, “I’m so ashamed of being white.” The lobster is delicious, The wine divine, And center of attention At the damask table, mine. To be a Problem on Park Avenue at eight Is not so bad. Solutions to the Problem, Of course, wait. Lastly my favorite; the inspiration for the title of the play “A Raisin in the Sun”: Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in sun? Or fester like a sore – And then run? Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar over – like a syrupy sweet? Maybe it just sags like a heavy load. Or does it explode? sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
From the publication of his first book in 1926, Langston Hughes was America's acknowledged poet of color, the first to commemorate the experience--and suffering--of African-Americans in a voice that no reader, black or white, could fail to hear.nbsp;nbsp;In this, his last collection of verse, Hughes's voice is more pointed than ever before, as he explicitly addresses the racial politics of the sixties in such pieces as "Prime," "Motto," "Dream Deferred," "Frederick Douglas: 1817-1895," "Still Here," "Birmingham Sunday." " History," "Slave," "Warning," and "Daybreak in Alabama." Sometimes Ironic, sometimes bitter, always powerful, the poems in The Panther and the Lash are the last testament of a great American writer who grappled fearlessly and artfully with the most compelling issues of his time. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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