![]() ![]() This is a poem about ‘education’ that goes beyond school lessons. This acknowledgment of what brings them together, but also what marks them out as different, underpins this poem.Ĩ. Hughes writes that his experience of the world will be different from his white peers, and yet they – and their white teacher – are united by being American. ![]() This poem is about the experience of being a black boy – the only one in his class – at a New York School in the early twentieth century. Hughes (1901-67) was one of the leading poets of the Harlem Renaissance in the 1920s. So Chesterton writes in this poem, part of a longer sequence from 1922 called ‘Songs of Education’ in which the poet and creator of Father Brown rails against the various flaws of the modern age, all of which are grouped around ‘education’ in some way.ħ. With the care of a baby of seven weeks old … They have brightened our room, that is spacious and cool,Īnd Books for the Blind that will teach us to see įor mother is dancing up forty-eight floors,įor love of the Leeds International Stores,Īnd the flame of that faith might perhaps have grown cold, This short poem – quoted in full above – is quintessential Emily Dickinson, and sees her using the word ‘Education’ as a metaphor for the way the lily flourishes out of the earth, like a child growing to maturity.Ħ. ![]()
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