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BONDAGE by GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON

Poet Analysis

First Line: MANY CAGES ROUND ME
Last Line: MY GARDEN WALKS LIE INWARDLY!
Subject(s): RACISM; RACIAL PREJUDICE; BIGOTRY;

Many cages round me,
Bar on bar
Stand grim, forbidding!
Ghostly pressures
Clutch my heart.
I gaze with eyes unseeing—
Whereunto may I wander free?
Alas, alas!
My garden walks lie inwardly!



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