Countee+Cullen!


 * Countee Cullen** By Hailey Mann

Biography: Countee Cullen was born on May 30th, 1903. He was raised by many different people in New York and thus began his poetry career. He began writing poems at a very young age and as he got older his works began to be published in many different places. In his home he learned about the black politics and culture and was later elected the president of the NAACP. He wrote books with the message of the effects of racism and racial identity and injustice behavior. His poems "Heritage", "Incident" and "Yet I do Marvel" were his most famous because of the messages that were portrayed. Cullen was the leading writer of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of remarkable literary achievement by African-American writers in New York City during the 1920s. What made Countee such a good asset to the Harlem Renaissance was that he never looked past racial themes and problems. Many say that he was the voice of the Harlem time period because of the message he passed within his poems.



**The Loss of Love**
All through an empty place I go, And find her not in any room; The candles and the lamps I light Go down before a wind of gloom.

Thick-spraddled lies the dust about, A fit, sad place to write her name Or draw her face the way she looked That legendary night she came.

The old house crumbles bit by bit; Each day I hear the ominous thud That says another rent is there For winds to pierce and storms to flood.

My orchards groan and sag with fruit; Where, Indian-wise, the bees go round; I let it rot upon the bough; I eat what falls upon the ground.

The heavy cows go laboring In agony with clotted teats; My hands are slack; my blood is cold; I marvel that my heart still beats.

I have no will to weep or sing, No least desire to pray or curse; The loss of love is a terrible thing; They lie who say that death is worse.

 

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