Passage Discussion

[ohthatpatrick]

Here's the general Scale and Passage Map for this passage.



PASSAGE MAP

P1: Background info on Cullen and description of poetic influences

P2: Critics who liked Cullen's dual concerns ... critics who objected to Cullen's dual concerns ... Cullen's own philosophy about form and content

P3: How focus of Cullen's poetry changed somewhat in his later years without abandoning racial concerns.

[csunnerberg13]

Can you say where the author stands in this passage? In the last paragraph, line 54, where it says "Cullen never abandoned his commitment to the importance of racial issues" - does this indicate that the author agrees that the use of European forms was always able to convey racial themes?

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