Clarissa+Scott+Delany+1st+period

by Chris Carden Clarissa Scott Delany was born in Tuskegee, Alabama in 1901. She was sent to Wellesley College in New England. When she was there she would attend meeting at the Boston Literary Guild. This was the start to her literary and career that would be involved in the Harlem Renaissance. She traveled to Europe after her college years at Wellesley. She wrote some poems there and afgter she came back moved to Washington D.C. She then became a teacher for a short period. She continued to write. The topics that she wrote about usually involved black culture, and some superstition. She married Hubert T. Delaney and moved with him to New York. She became a social worker there in 1926. Later that year though she died of kidney disease. She had an extremely short life and because of it was only able to publish three poems during that time period. She was a very expressive poet who inspired others with her few works and had great details and symbols and she accomplished great things during her short life.
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The night was made for rest and sleep, For winds that softly sigh; It was not made for grief and tears; So then why do I cry? The wind that blows through leafy trees Is soft and warm and sweet; For me the night is a gracious cloak To hide my soul’s defeat. Just one dark hour of shaken depths, Of bitter black despair- Another day will find me brave, And not afraid to dare.

The poem is talking about many things. There is a person that cannot rest they are too stressed or too sad to. There is something inside the person that is bothering them. The person does not have self confidence and is not willing to take risks or try new things. The night is a time that the person can be fine with them self and not be judged by others. They can only think about their issues, but do not have to deal with them during the night. The person thinks and thinks at night and decides that one day they will face their fears and be confident. It will be during the day once they can get through the night full of pondering their life.
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__//**Works Cited**//__ "Clarissa M. Scott Delany - The Black Renaissance in Washington, DC." //DC Library Labs |//. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. <[]>.

"Persons of the Week: Charlotte Hawkins Brown and Clarissa M. Scott Delany." //Redirect to Wellesley College web site//. N.p., 14 July 2000. Web. 14 Apr. 2011. <[|__http://www.wellesley.edu/Anniversary/brown.html__]>.