Classic and Contemporary Poetry

TESTING, by AIME CESAIRE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography
First Line: The flint hunters / the obsidian assayers
Last Line: And most ignominiously
Subject(s): Negritude (literary Movement); Language

the flint hunters
the obsidian assayers
those who follow to opalescence
the invasion of opacity
the creators of space
come off it the abductors of the Word
the highwaymen of Speech
it's ages since we sent them
on their way
in terms most heinous.