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Yet Do I Marvel – Countee Cullen

Yet Do I Marvel – Countee Cullen. Kenley White. Countee Cullen. Yet Do I Marvel. Diction. Positive Negative. God is good Well-meaning Kind Flesh that mirrors him Yet do I marvel. I doubt Stoop to quibble Buried mole Blind Someday must die Tortured Tantalus

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Yet Do I Marvel – Countee Cullen

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  1. Yet Do I Marvel – Countee Cullen Kenley White

  2. Countee Cullen

  3. Yet Do I Marvel

  4. Diction Positive Negative • God is good • Well-meaning • Kind • Flesh that mirrors him • Yet do I marvel • I doubt • Stoop to quibble • Buried mole • Blind • Someday must die • Tortured Tantalus • Caprice dooms Sisyphus • Struggle up a never-ending stair • Inscrutable • Catechism by a mind too strewn • Petty cares • Awful brain • Awful hand

  5. Imagery • The author’s diction creates imagery in his description of all the things that are wrong in the world • “Little buried mole continues blind” • “Why flesh that mirrors Him must someday die”

  6. Details • The poem centrally focuses on the popular question, “If God exists, why does he allow so many bad things in the world?” • End of the sonnet provides resolution, where Countee Cullen gives God the credit because he was able to become a poet despite the uneducated stereotypes African Americans had

  7. Language • Repetition • “What awful brain compels His awful hand” • Consonance • “God is good” • “Inscrutable….and immune” • Alliteration • “[some] day die” • “fickle fruit” • “tortured Tantalus”

  8. Structure • Shakespearean sonnet • Rhyming couplet provides resolution • “Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: to make a poet black, and bid him sing!” • Written in Iambic pentameter

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