Song for a Dark Girl Themes

Though slavery was officially ended after the Civil War, injustices against black people continued. This poem centers on one of the most graphic and terrible racial injustices of the post-Civil War...

We don't see much of the lovers' romance in "Song for a Dark Girl." We see no kind looks, no flowers, no chocolates, no kisses being exchanged. But the immense sadness the speaker feels upon the br...

"Song for a Dark Girl" comes at religion with an angle: God favors white people. Jesus—though he was, much like the man in this poem, a victim with a grizzly death—was white. And the victim in...