With narrative poems and dramatic monologues, we are usually…

With narrative poems and dramatic monologues, we are usually in no danger of mistaking the speaker for the poet, but __________ poems present more of a challenge as there is a discrepancy between the speaker of the poem and and what we know about the poet. 

Read the footnotes at the bottom of the page for Cullen’s po…

Read the footnotes at the bottom of the page for Cullen’s poem “Yet Do I Marvel” located on page 1113? How does this help your understanding of the poem? How do these two figures relate to the experience of black poets during the Harlem Renaissance?  Respond in complete sentences