Analyzing and Interpreting Literature / Unit 8 AIL 0718 short lesson, about 20 seconds
McKay's "From Street to Street"
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The idea
McKay's Harlem Shadows runs to three six-line stanzas, and each one ends on the phrase from street to street. The repetition enacts the walking the poem describes. Published nineteen twenty-two, so it can be quoted, and it belongs to the exam's twentieth-century band.
In practice
Each stanza ends where it began.
Where people slip
The repetition enacts the walking.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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