Kathleen+Tankersley+Young.

=Kathleen Tankersley Young =

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Kathleen Tankersley Young was a poet and an editor it the Harlem Renaissance. In 1929, she joined up with Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler and together they published //Blues: A magazine of New Rhymes// (Kathleen Tankersley Young Correspondence). She lived during the Harlem Renaissance, and expressed her soul through her writing. SHe expressed her feelings about her past and her present and impacted people going through the same things. =====

**December Poet **
She now retraces her steps once more Over the length of room to the dark window. She stoops to the ancient piano And fingers the white keys that pour Strange music of remembered spring thunder That she once heard in a youth long dead. She has not forgotten; she turns her head To stare into the dark, and hear the winds stir A new sound: although now vaguely familiar And yet altogether strange, the chords grow Crazily wild, and the black window  Rattles, and music continues thunder.  Some way of sound her dreams may transcend <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> These stairways of snow, and snow, and wind.

<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Analysis: This poem is about her thinking about her past. She is thinking of the hard times she had and is trying to recall them. In the poem, the girl remembers and plays music about it. She turns the bad thoughts of her past into deep music. With her strength to push through her troubles, she created a great poem about self-expression. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> I took the poem to be from a woman's point of view, which is also from the authors point of view. Living in the times of the Harlem Renaissance was hard for many African American artists. Her way of self expression was literature. Through this, she expressed her feelings and doubts about the world around her. It was very clear and expressive, and gave a lot of insight to how she felt about the past, such as "remembered spring thunder" and "Crazy wild, and the black window rattles".

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<span style="line-height: 27.5pt; margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin-left: 40.0pt; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-layout-grid-align: none; mso-pagination: none; text-autospace: none; text-indent: -40.0pt;"><span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 12pt;">"Kathleen Tankersley Young Correspondence, 1928-1932: Finding Aid ." //Princeton University Library Digital Collections: Home//. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. <http://diglib.princeton.edu/ead/getEad?eadid=C1273&kw=>. =====

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<span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> "Shadowed dreams: women's poetry of ... - Google Books." //Google Books//. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. <http://books.google.com/books?id=aQbph1tBHi8C&pg=PA191&lpg=PA191&dq=kathleen+tankersley+young+poetry&source=bl&ots=hsX5HqAcuz&sig=Ipb37VYeVi7fp7h7S_a2kB3k5jg&hl=en&ei=m7anTbfLBYnEsAOnj_D5DA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBcQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&>. =====