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FOUR GLIMPSES OF NIGHT by FRANK MARSHALL DAVIS

Poem Explanation Poet Analysis

First Line: EAGERLY
Last Line: SHATTERS INTO A BILLION FRAGMENTS %OF QUIET SHADOWS %AT THE BLARING JAZZ %OF A MORNING SUN
Subject(s): AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALPHABET VERSE; NIGHT;

Poem Sources:

AMERICAN NEGRO POETRY.
  BONTEMPS, ARNA (ED.)
  (1963)
 
THE POETRY OF BLACK AMERICA; ANTHOLOGY OF THE 20TH CENTURY.
  ADOFF, ARNOLD (ED.)
  (1973)
 
THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF POETRY. 3RD ED. ED, BY ALEXANDER ALLISON, BLAKE HERBERT, ET AL.
  ALLISON, ALEXANDER (ED.)
  (1983)
 
BLACK VOICES; AN ANTHOLOGY OF AFRICAN-AMERICAN LITERATURE.
  CHAPMAN, ABRAHAM (ED.)
  (2001)
 



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