Read "The Southern Refugee” and "South.”How do both poems address the individual’s search for home?
Read the excerpt from "Pilgrimage.”At the museum, we marvel at their clothes— preserved under glass—so much smallerthan our own, as if those who wore them were only children. We sleep in their beds,the old mansions hunkered on the bluffs, draped in flowers—funereal—a blurof petals against the river’s gray. The brochure in my room calls thisliving history. The brass plate on the door reads Prissy’s Room. A window framesThe river’s crawl toward the Gulf. In my dream, The ghost of history lies down beside me,rolls over, pins me beneath a heavy arm.Pilgrimage, "Elegy for the Native Guards", "South" from Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2006 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
Read "On Liberty and Slavery” and "Duty.”What do these poems have in common?
Read "The Southern Refugee.”What does this poem express about the individual’s search for home?
Read "Like Brothers We Meet.”What does this poem express about the importance of family?
Read "South.”What does this poem express about the individual’s search for home?
Read "On Liberty and Slavery” and "Duty.”How do these poems address the experience of oppression differently?
Read the excerpt from "On Liberty and Slavery.”How long have I in bondage lain, And languished to be free! Alas! and must I still complain— Deprived of liberty.Oh, Heaven! and is there no relief This side the silent grave— To soothe the pain—to quell the grief And anguish of a slave?
Read "South.”What does the poem express about the tension between appearance and reality?
Read the excerpt from "Elegy for the Native Guards.”The Daughters of the Confederacyhas placed a plaque here, at the fort’s entrance—each Confederate soldier’s name raised hardin bronze; no names carved for the Native Guards—2nd Regiment, Union men, black phalanx.What is monument to their legacy?All the grave markers, all the crude headstones—water-lost. Now fish dart among their bones,as we listen for what the saves intone.Only the fort remains, near forty feet high,round, unfinished, half open to the sky,The elements—wind, rain,—God's deliberate eye."Native Guard" from Native Guard by Natasha Trethewey. Copyright (c) 2006 by Natasha Trethewey. Used by permission of HarperCollins Publishers.
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