Negritude

Poems present most poets in depths and in some cases presents aspects of a poet neglected or overlooked before. The black poets is a comperhensive anthology that presents a huge range of Black-American poetry. The black poets reveals good sense of the depth of Randall’s introspection and depression, and an even better sense of his important role as elder statesmen of the Black Arts MovementRandall often includes himself in a sense of personal injury over his people's history and issues. This tendency, and a debt to the black poetic tradition, can be seen in all parts of the book. The repitition of the word black in Negritude is one example on that. The repitition of this word shows how closed and devoted the author is to his culture, the black culture. Unlike many of his other poetry, Negritude doesn’t show that much of ambiguity. It moves straight forward to the exact topic that Randall needs to speak about.

Dudley said clearly: “black the hand that dried my tears, black is the first old man I ever notice. ” these two lines give a feelings of randall’s depression and sadness explaining that the only people who care about him are the people who he grow up with. Dudley move in the fourth line to reveal the diffuculty that his father has because he is black, “black is the first old man I ever noticed; black the burden of his years.” These two lines also reveal passion from the author to his father. Randall also describes poor and homeless black people in his poem “Nugritude”. He expresses the struggle of some poor people in words: “Black is waiting in the darkness, black the ground where hoods have lain.” In the last four lines, Randall has to come back and say that although...