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“Any Human to Another” Countee Cullen Poem Summary The first stanza expresses sorrow as an arrow piercing into the depth of the human body. The second stanza compares the grief of two as being combined and separate like a sea and river. The third stanza states that no one should be so assured that they have a space that is all their own separate from society in protected in happiness The forth stanza proclaims that joy be known to a few, but grief is only known to those with a true heart. In the last stanza grief is compared to a blade struck and laid at the feet of a crown. Form Five Stanzas Rhyme Scheme – ABCCAB, AABCCB, ABABCCD, ABABB, ABCDCBD Themes The body, violence, and nature and camping terms used to express the human condition and emotion Symbolic and Figurative Language There are many similes and metaphors Sorrow like an arrow through the bone People’s different is like the sea and river A man with a tent pitched in the meadow under the Sun’s Shadow is a place protected from happiness. Sorrow cuts like a blade. Sorrow must be laid on your head like a crown. Poet Information Countee Cullen was born in 1903 and raised in New York City first by his Grandmother and then by Reverend and Mrs. Frederick Cullen. He attended a prestigious New York City prep school, NYU, and then Harvard. By then, she was a leading poet in the Harlem Renaissance movement. He was briefly married to Yolande Du Bois, daughter of W. E. B. Du Bois and spend a short time studying in Paris. In the 1930’s he also wrote the novel , One Way to Heaven as well as short stories for children before becoming a teacher in New York City into the 1940’s. 1 Sarah Stoloff “Any Human to Another” Countee Cullen Key Facts Poem of the Harlem Renaissance Source http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/caroling-dusk-counteecullen/1018941142?ean=9780806513492 http://www.encyclopedia.com/article-1G2-2691100011/any-human-another.html http://bumba.net/~hmaon/poetry.htm#any My own analysis 2 Sarah Stoloff