Classic and Contemporary Poetry
HASKELL, by WITTER BYNNER Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here in kansas is a school Last Line: With head hung, to the dormitory. Alternate Author Name(s): Morgan, Emanuel Subject(s): Kansas; Native Americans - Education | ||||||||
Here in Kansas is a school Made of square stones and windows, Where Indian boys are taught to use a tool, A printing-press, a book, And Indian girls To read, to dress, to cook. And as I watch today The orderly industrious classes, Only their color and silence and the way The hair lies flat and black on their heads proclaims them Sioux, Comanche, Choctaw, Cherokee, Creek, Chippewa, Paiute -- and the red and blue Of the girls' long sweaters and the purple and yellow, And the tawny slant of the machine-made shirts . . . Noon -- and out they come. And one tall fellow, Breaking from the others with a glittering yell and crouching slim, Gives a leap like the leap of Mordkin, And the sun carves under him A canyon of glory . . . And then it shadows, and he darts, With head hung, to the dormitory. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...PERBERON NAMBE MORNING by A. A. HEDGE COKE MARGARET/HASKELL INDIAN SCHOOL by CAROLYN MARIE DUNN INDIAN EDUCATION BLUES by ED EDMO INDIAN BOARDING SCHOOL: THE RUNAWAYS by LOUISE ERDRICH OUR TONGUES SLAPPED INTO SILENCE by LAURA TOHE EXCERPT FROM MANNIFEST MANNERS by GERALD VIZENOR A BUFFALO DANCE AT SANTO DOMINGO by WITTER BYNNER A DANCE FOR RAIN (AT COCHITI, NEW MEXICO) by WITTER BYNNER A FARMER REMEMBERS LINCOLN by WITTER BYNNER |
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