Classic and Contemporary Poetry
PREJUDICE, by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: These fell miasmic rings of mist, with ghoulish menace bound Last Line: The fire of whose furnaces may sleepbut never dies! Alternate Author Name(s): Tremaine, John Subject(s): Racism; Racial Prejudice; Bigotry | ||||||||
These fell miasmic rings of mist, with ghoulish menace bound, Like noose-horizons tightening my little world around, They still the soaring will to wing, to dance, to speed away, And fling the soul insurgent back into its shell of clay: Beneath incrusted silences, a seething Etna lies, The fire of whose furnaces may sleepbut never dies! | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...BLACK WOMAN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON FOREDOOM by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON I MUST BECOME A MENACE TO MY ENEMIES by JUNE JORDAN A SONG FOR SOWETO by JUNE JORDAN ON THE LOSS OF ENERGY (AND OTHER THINGS) by JUNE JORDAN POEM ABOUT POLICE VIOLENCE by JUNE JORDAN DRAFT OF A RAP FOR WEN HO LEE by JUNE JORDAN THE NIGHT THAT LORCA COMES by BOB KAUFMAN THE MYSTIC RIVER by GALWAY KINNELL OLD BLACK MEN by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON |
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