Ry Walker-Hartshorn
African American Women’s
Lives
Professor Hobbs
February 12, 2017
Blog Post #4: Midterm Topic
For my midterm project my primary
source with by France’s Harper’s poem, Bury
me in the Freeland. I reviewed a lot of Harper’s poems but this one spoke
to me the most. I think her language and the imagery she evokes is powerfully
captivating and I believe she inserts a lot of her own emotions in the form of
fear, empathy and compassion into this poem. While I am still figuring out
exactly what I want to argue, I did find her final three stanzas to be
particularly interesting to me. In these stanzas she describes her own feelings
and thoughts about the idea of being laid to rest next in a land of slaves. She
is seemingly disturbed by this possibility, and as a free black woman born and
living in Baltimore, Maryland I think it is necessary to analyze her perception
of life in the south through this poem. Also, for my secondary source I will
most likely be using chapter four of Hazel Carby’s Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman
Novelist. I will need to research additional secondary sources and will
cite them accordingly. Lastly, if I have time and space I may potentially bring
in Abel Meeropol’s poem Strange Fruit
and compare and contrast it to Bury Me in
the Freeland.
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