Congo and other poems. Vachel Lindsay. Table of contents | * THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK. CUTTING THROUGH THE JUNGLE WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Page And the gray sky opened like a new-rent veil. And . 13 rows · · 9 by Vachel Lindsay; The Congo, and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay. Download This eBook. Format Cited by: 8. It is the only collection of Lindsay's poetry still in print. Other than "The Congo" and a few others, these poems contain no marginal notes and are entirely self-contained on the page. And they are beautiful, disturbing, fanciful, funny, strange, and entirely bltadwin.ru by: 8.
Congo and other poems. Vachel Lindsay. Table of contents | This poem is intended as a description of a sort of Blashfield mural painting on the sky. To be sung to the tune of Yankee Doodle, yet in a slower, more orotund fashion. It is presumably an exercise for an entertainment on the evening of Washington's Birthday. Vachel Lindsay was born on Novem in Springfield, Illinois. The second of six children and the only son of Dr. Vachel Thomas Lindsay and Esther Catharine Frazee Lindsay. Vachel did not attend school until he was eight. He was taught at home by his mother, who had been a teacher and artist before her marriage. Congo and other poems. Vachel Lindsay. Table of contents | * THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK. CUTTING THROUGH THE JUNGLE WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. Page And the gray sky opened like a new-rent veil. And showed the apostles with their coats of mail.
It’s virtually the centennial of Vachel Lindsay’s The Congo (, published ). But the poem has gone through hard times. Despite its enormous initial popularity, Lindsay’s poem has become an embarrassment. Its overt racist imagery has put it under erasure: little taught and little anthologized. Still, a recitation of the poem appears, without any indication of the controversy, in Peter Weir’s Dead Poets Society. And Lindsay is surely a precursor to a range of performance poetry. Nicholas Vachel Lindsay (): (Vachel is pronounced Vay-chul, that is, it rhymes with 'Rachel'). "The Eagle that is Forgotten" and "The Congo" are two of his best-known poems, and appear in his first two volumes of verse, "General William Booth Enters into Heaven" () and "The Congo" (). With a boomlay, boomlay, boomlay, BOOM. * THEN I SAW THE CONGO, CREEPING THROUGH THE BLACK, CUTTING THROUGH THE FOREST WITH A GOLDEN TRACK. * A negro fairyland swung into view, A minstrel river. Where dreams come true. The ebony palace soared on high. Through the blossoming trees to the evening sky.
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