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The black Man's Son
By: Oswald Durand

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The poem," The black Man's Son which was written by Oswald Durand.
It is that a man in his twenty who fell in love with a white woman which

reminded him of his mom. As he compared them to each other in

personal apperance, like there shining eyes of blues, and their blonde
hair and skin colour. which also he described himself which made me
wonder that he was a mixed child, to the point where he said "too dark
for her'' and ''My father was more black than I.'' also because he stated

that his father black and his mom was white.

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In this poem the poet intends to make the readers
feel in the olden days because like in the olden days
of racism , he likes this girl named lise what seems
like he can't be with her because of their skin color,
also which he likes this girl name lise who resembles

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be cautious because they are being
careful of what they do because of
their skin color even if the story go

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descriptive and cautious because of how he
describe his mom and lice along with a little

of his dad and himself also because even
tho he loved lise he was being cautious in

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The theme or lesson in this poem seems to be about Forbidden
love because of the days racism, there where lots of lines in the
poem which made me think that like the ''white folks' daughter'',

they used the words folk's a lot in the olden days, also because they

keep referring to the man as black and the women as white also
and i quote'' too dark for her'' he made it sound like he is too dark
to be with her which shouldn't be a problem unless it was in the
olden/ racism days. In other words it was like he was Forbidden to

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POEM AND WHY, OR WHAT
DISTURBED YOU ABOUT THE

I did not really liked this poem because I

couldn't really decide on what this poem was
about because I was getting different poem

understanding from this. But one thing i know

for sure is that it was about racism even if i

Hadassah Maloney