Racial Injustice and Violence: A Study of Sterling A. Brown

B Sivakamasundari, Muthuraman
unpublished
===================================================================== Courtesy: https://mypoeticside.com/poets/sterling-a-brown-poems Transfer "Transfer," a poem of nine balladic quatrain stanzas, employs the African American folk tradition that characterizes all the poetry of Sterling A. Brown. The poem is divided into two parts. The first part recreates the event that caused a black man to be imprisoned, and the second part narrates the circumstances and consequences of his escape from
more » ... More significantly, the second part concludes with the hero's folk wisdom concerning the directions and goals of African American life.
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