Color

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By Listen TheBook Posted on May 31, 2023

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Authors: Countee Cullen In Year : 1925

Book Language: English

Audiobook: Color

To You Who Read My Book
[Color] Yet Do I Marvel
A Song of Praise
Brown Boy to Brown Girl
A Brown Girl Dead
To a Brown Girl
To a Brown Boy
Black Magdalens
Atlantic City Waiter
Near White
Tableau
Harlem Wine
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
Incident
Two Who Crossed a Line (She Crosses)
Two Who Crossed a Line (He Crosses)
Saturday's Child
The Dance of Love
Pagan Prayer
Wisdom Cometh With the Years
To My Fairer Brethren
Fruit of the Flower
The Shroud of Color
Heritage
[Epitaphs] For a Poet
For My Grandmother
For a Cynic
For a Singer
For a Virgin
For a Lady I Know
For a Lovely Lady
For an Atheist
For an Evolutionist and His Opponent
For an Anarchist
For a Magician
For a Pessimist
For a Mouthy Woman
For a Philosopher
For an Unsuccessful Sinner
For a Fool
For One Who Gayly Sowed His Oats
For a Skeptic
For a Fatalist
For Daughters of Magdalen
For a Wanton
For a Preacher
For One Who Died Singing of Death
For John Keats, Apostle of Beauty
For Hazel Hall, American Poet
For Paul Lawrence Dunbar
For Joseph Conrad
For Myself
All the Dead
[For Love's Sake] Oh, for a Little While, Be Kind
If You Should Go
To One Who Said Me Nay
Advice to Youth
Caprice
Sacrament
Bread and Wine
Spring Reminiscence
[Varia] Suicide Chant
She of the Dancing Feet Sings
Judas Iscariot
The Wise
Mary, Mother of Christ
Dialogue
In Memory of Col. Charles Young
To My Friends
Gods
To John Keats, Poet. At Springtime
On Going
Harsh World That Lashest Me
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Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their ancestors were kidnapped and rooted in the white supremacist society where they live. With poems about love, tradition, the intertwined lives of Black people and whites, and the experience of a "Negro in a day like this," Color is a profound early work of the Harlem Renaissance. The collection’s most famous poem is "Heritage". (Summary by Mike Overby)