Countee Cullen Poem Analysis

Countee Cullen was born in New York City on 1903. There are many experiences that influenced his writing. As evidence Cullen lost his parents and brothers , he have a famous quote “your love to me was like an unread book “ this show that he suffer in a way that he don't know what family love is . Cullen was raised by his paternal grandmother until she die , at the age of 10 years old Cullen were adopted by Carolyn belle and Reverend Frederick A. Cullen who were a Episcopal church in Harlem. He was at the same time affronted by the racial America’s injustices . More than half of his poems are racial poems for example “Color” and “the Ballad of the brown girl” as a result of Cullen's experiences he success and write poems about what do we have to do on this specifics situations, for example the poem “ On this I stand”. Cullen was a desolated but a fighter man who demonstrates sadness in his poems but also fight for being a successful poet. In particular “the loss of love” as an evidence of the Cullen sadness poetry show that creates a sad emotion about his lone less life, this poem is the most important and famous of Countee’s work because the emotions that he evokes . This poem is about how a person feels about the loss of …show more content…
Finally the last critic that Countee affront in his life period was that he put special effort trying to bring races into closer harmony. However between Cullen's philosophy and writing a paradox exists, this made possible “the ballad of the brown girl” and “heritage” his major successes in conclusion all this poems surrounding by his traditional poetic style. Nowdays Cullen became the most-often anthologized black poet, he began to publish his poems for which he wanted to be remembered as “color” and “ on this I stand “