Tag: literature

6 November, 2023 “We Were Never Meant to Survive”: How the Ghost of Slavery Haunts Audre Lorde and the Black Community in the United States After the successes of the 1960s civil rights movement, Black people in the United States were forced to navigate the new post-segregation world in which there was an institutionalized semblance… →

Emily Semaya Emily Dickinson’s 320th published poem, colloquially titled “There’s a certain Slant of light,” in reference to the first line, explores feelings of deep heaviness and despair through the use of comparisons and metaphors. The poem is arranged in quatrains, with each stanza following an ABCB rhyme scheme, save for the final one which… →