One of this poet's collections is divided into poems in standard English called "majors" and poems in dialect called "minors."
One of this poet's collections is divided into poems in standard English called "majors" and poems in dialect called "minors." He claimed that "labor's painful sweat-beads made a consecrating chrism" upon his race, whose name is "writ in Glory's scroll," in his "Ode to Ethiopia." In one poem, he says that the world "may dream otherwise," but "oh great Christ, our cries to thee from tortured souls arise." His most noted poem describes a song that is "not a carol of joy or glee, but a prayer that he sends from his heart's deep core." For 10 points, name this African American poet of "We Wear the Mask," whose poem "Sympathy" contains the line, "I know why the caged bird sings."
One of this poet's collections is divided into poems in standard English called "majors" and poems in dialect called "minors."
Paul Laurence Dunbar