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A 6 page paper which compares and constrasts Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Frederick Douglass, John Berryman’s Homage to Mistress Bradstreet, and Robert Hayden’s A Letter From Phillis Wheatley. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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a look at historic figures, figures from American history, that have been instrumental in one way or another as it relates to the development of the society. In the case
of Berryman and Hayden the subject is that which addresses another poet, while the work of Dunbar addresses the nature of the former slave Frederick Douglass, best known for his
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass wherein he recounts his time as a slave and his journey to freedom. All three of the poems under discussion, as mention, address
the life and/or work of a historical figure. The following paper compares and contrasts the three poems. Dunbar, Berryman, and Hayden The first poem, Dunbars poem, is something
of a eulogy to the figure of Frederick Douglass apparently after he has died. Frederick Douglass is perhaps one of the most powerful figures in history, African American history and
the history of the nation. He was a self educated man who wrote about his days as a slave and his struggle to become free. He was a man who
frequented the White House and a man who was not afraid to tell the truth about slavery and righteously and politically fight for freedoms. Dunbars poem heralds Douglass as
a great and wondrous man that many would miss. Dunbar states: "And he was no soft-tongued apologist;/ He spoke straight-forward, fearlessly uncowed;/ The sunlight of his truth dispelled the mist/
And set in bold relief each dark-hued cloud;/ To sin and crime he gave their proper hue,/ And hurled at evil what was evils due" (Dunbar 19-24). His poem
illustrates the man that was Douglass, giving him his due and arguing that hopefully the world will remember him and continuously fight his cause, the cause of all people in
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