December 29, 2010
The Souls of Black Folk
O water, voice of my heart, instantaneous in the sand, All nighttime long instantaneous with a pitiful cry, As I lie and listen, and cannot understand The voice of my heart in my side or the voice of the sea, O water, crying for rest, is it I, is it I? All night long the water is crying to me.
Unresting water, at that place sh all never be rest Till the lead moon droop and the last tide fail, And the fire of the revoke begin to burn in the west; And the heart shall be weary and wonder and cry like the sea, All liveness long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me.
ARTHUR SYMONS.
Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by or so through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it. They approach me in a half- hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then, quite of saying directly, How does it feel to be a task? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my townspeople; or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages fake your blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce the boiling to a simmer, as the make may require. To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem?
I answer seldom a word.
And yet, being a problem is a strange experience,--peculiar even for one who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and in Europe. It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that the revelation first bursts upon one, all in a day, as it were. I remember good when the shadow swept across me. I was a smaller thing, away up in the hills of New England, where the dark Housatonic winds in the midst of Hoosac and Taghkanic to the sea. In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys and girls heads to subvert gorgeous visiting- cards--ten cents a package--and exchange. The exchange was merry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card,...If you want to get a full essay, orderliness it on our website: Ordercustompaper.com
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