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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
BANNEKER, by RITA DOVE Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: What did he do except lie / under a pear tree Last Line: Rising from the morass and spreading / in a spiral of lights ... Subject(s): Astronomy & Astronomers; Banneker, Benjamin (1731-1806); Mathematics; Racial Equality | |||
View Poem Text | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...CREDO by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE MAN TO BE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON THE WRECKAGE ON THE WALL OF EGGS by THYLIAS MOSS POEM TO NEGRO AND WHITES by MAXWELL BODENHEIM ATLANTA EXPOSITION ODE by MARY WESTON FORDHAM CROATAN by CHAPMAN JAMES MILLING THEY ARE THE SAME by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON TO A LITTLE COLORED BOY by PRISCILLA JANE THOMPSON TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN: THE SECOND DAY: LADY WENTWORTH by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW SONNET: 21 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL ON HIS BEING [OR, HAVING] ARRIVED AT THE AGE OF TWENTY-THREE by JOHN MILTON |
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