tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9010086309974781816.post3345513603650256144..comments2013-05-14T17:38:17.881-07:00Comments on GW English 3810: 20th Century U.S. Black Freedom Movements Class Blog: Margaret Walker and The LineElizabeth Pittmanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15257158252306308004noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9010086309974781816.post-32331543902141222052013-04-05T13:17:10.624-07:002013-04-05T13:17:10.624-07:00Maggie,
Somehow my response to your post got lost...Maggie,<br /><br />Somehow my response to your post got lost in the shuffle. Here it is albeit late:<br />I gain so much literary pleasure from your understanding of how Walker employs the line in “For My People.” Your reading makes me think of the ways her lines are crafted in order to create a universe of meaning in a single element of the larger poem. I must admit that I find this poem to be such an effective call to action through its reliance upon multiple forms of or allusions to tradition. Your reading attends to one of those and that is how Walker is using the Greek notion of poetry as oral performance in her use of strophe to indicate poetic turns and to foreground the voice, singing, speaking, working. Your reading of her use of enjambment is particularly instructive for having us turn to the patterns of the poem's form in order to understand the way that it argues for a particular militancy, even if that militancy may not be one that is recognizable in any typical way.Elizabeth Pittmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15257158252306308004noreply@blogger.com