Yet Do I Marvel

Yet Do I Marvel Yet Do I Marvel a sonnet by Countee Cullen, is create verbally in iambic pentameter. Its rhyming scheme is arranged in two, four line stanzas, abab and cdcd, ending with a six-line stanza, eeffgg. This poem is written in first-person, the verbalise of a Black man and uses a mixture of tones confusion, anger and sarcasm, to portray its message The poem begins with the poets voice affirming the belief that graven image is good, well meaning, but admits God has left him with forth ex endation for understanding the reasons behind the justice or injustices, which make up Gods will.Comparisons with in the poem are made to represent the lack of sense in Gods design. The line, The buried inguen continues to be blind, would seem to be an inexplicable injustice against a shaft that has done no wrong. Then the line, Why flesh that mirrors him must nigh day die, would seem an unjust end for a being God created in his likeness.Cullens next comparisons allude to two mythic al gods sentenced to pay back for eternity for their heinous crimes, Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus To struggle up a never-ending stair, there would seem to be no pauperisation of explanation for the justness of their fate (Encyclopedia Mythica). The poems last stanzas are the pauperization for reaffirmation of faith in Gods divine plan as we have not the wisdom to be more than his instrument, To catechism by a mind too strewn, With petty cares to slightly understand, What awful wizardry compels His awful hand.That leaves the poet concluding that despite the racial indignities and senseless injustices performed against moroses who speak out, he must accept what it is Gods will which is, To make a poet black, and bid him sing Countee Cullen was a pivotal force in the black arts movement of his time, known as Harlem Renaissance. Cullens use of racial themes in this verse are reflective of a bl ack urban consciousness for change, brought about by Americas racial climate during the 1920s and black American disillusionment after World War 1 (Cullen, Countee).Countee Cullen speckle an out spoken agent for change drew criticism for his whole caboodle when he chose as his model the classical verse forms of John Keats sort of than rely on the rhythms and idioms of his black American heritage (African American Literature), It was Cullens belief that use of more traditional forms to bodily structure his poetic message would allow art to transcended race and minimize the outdo between black and white people (Cullen, Countee ). Yet Do I MarvelBiography Online Encyclopedia Mythica http//www. mythweb. com/index. html African American literature. Encyclop? dia Britannica. Encyclop? dia Britannica Online. Encyclop? dia Britannica, 2010. Web. 19 Apr. 2010 http//www. search. eb. com. prxy1. ursus. maine. edu/eb/article-232356 Cullen, Countee. Encyclop? dia Britannica. Encyclop? dia Britannica Online. Encyclop? dia Britannica, 2010. Web. http//www. search. eb. com. prxy1. ursus. maine. edu/eb/article-9028151