Isabel+Neill

Isabel Neill By: Kenadee Lund

Isabel Neill was a poet in the Harlem Renaissance. She was famous for her poem called October. There are a few things and ways that she was able to fit into the Harlem Renaissance themes. She was an African American woman and wanted to fight for her rights as an individual. She was a famous poet that worked with many people in poetry and in other places for the arts. She seemed to be very out spoken. In her poetry it is very easy to tell that she had no problem telling the way she was feeling. In her poem "October" it talks about how she is burning wiht the trees and how she flies with the birds. This could mean that she was was feeling not only her pain, but everybody elses pain too. Her poetry made a difference in the Harlem Renaissance and without her poetry then perhaps we would not have evolved to where we are today.
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October Now gypsy fires bright in every tree Now countless vagrant birds and winging south; The white roads beckon and unsought, yet sweet Old songs of nomad day are in my mouth I burn with every tree, I fly with every birds, And know some gypsy witch, with mystic skill, Has traced her croked pattern across my heart.

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