Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 19 AIL 1825 short lesson, about 20 seconds
McKay's "From Street to Street"
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The idea
Unit eight worked Harlem Shadows: three six-line stanzas, each ending on the phrase from street to street, published nineteen twenty-two. The repetition enacts the walking the poem describes, and the form is closed in a decade when free verse was ascendant.
In practice
Closed form, in a free-verse decade.
Where people slip
Unit eight worked the poem.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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