James Weldon Johnson
Oh Black and Unknown Bards
I love this poem. It not only gives great images but also lets you hear the music he talks about. I love the songs he mentioned as well. You can almost hear the conviction in the singers voices. It makes me think of chain gangs and mammies. These songs kept their culture strong and got them through the hard times. They were denied everything for so long so they had to make the best with what they had; their voices.
The White Witch
In this poem he is talking about how evil the white woman is. He is talking about interracial relationships between black men and white women. I think their relationship doesn't work because they don't come from the same place. He makes her out to be the bad guy which isn't necessarily true. Her beliefs towards relationships could be entirely different from his based on her up bringing. It seems like a lost in translation situation.
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