Rickard's One Morning While In The Woods

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Rickard on December 1927 arrived in Chicago by train Richard was born on a Mississippi plantation. Wright, Davis, Walker, Bontemps Motley and brook all met and collaborated and made great work. They helped create and published in little magazines.

The speaker Richard wright the author throughout the poem uses imagery personification and symbolism get reader to feel precisely how he felt in a descriptive way as he worked his way through the woods. “One morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing’ you can visually perceive how he felt about stumbles over the body and I could image the disbelief of his view. I am sure that the body he was stumbling over was the body of an African American who was lynched maybe a night before

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