Module 3: Poems 7.3

This list covers:
"How to Read a Poem”
"The Negro Speaks of Rivers"
"If We Must Die"
"Black Woman"
"slaveships"
"Harriet Tubman"
"We Wear the Mask"
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  1. probe
    an exploratory action or expedition
    I say drop a mouse into a poem
    and watch him probe his way out,
    or walk inside the poem’s room
    and feel the walls for a light switch.
  2. lull
    make calm or still
    I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
  3. inglorious
    deserving or bringing disgrace or shame
    If we must die, let it not be like hogs
    Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
    While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
    Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
  4. accursed
    under or as if under an evil spell
    If we must die, let it not be like hogs
    Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
    While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
    Making their mock at our accursèd lot.
  5. noble
    having high or elevated character
    If we must die, O let us nobly die,
    So that our precious blood may not be shed
    In vain; then even the monsters we defy
    Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
  6. in vain
    without a successful result or effect
    If we must die, O let us nobly die,
    So that our precious blood may not be shed
    In vain; then even the monsters we defy
    Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
  7. defy
    resist or confront with resistance
    If we must die, O let us nobly die,
    So that our precious blood may not be shed
    In vain; then even the monsters we defy
    Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
  8. constrain
    restrict
    If we must die, O let us nobly die,
    So that our precious blood may not be shed
    In vain; then even the monsters we defy
    Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
  9. kinsman
    a male relative
    O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
  10. heathen
    not acknowledging the God of Christianity, Judaism and Islam
    Angel
    can these be men
    who vomit us out from ships
    called Jesus Angel Grace of God
    onto a heathen country
Created on Fri Aug 14 10:08:20 EDT 2020 (updated Tue Aug 25 15:33:43 EDT 2020)

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