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Arna Bontemps - The Day-Breakers 

We are not come to wage a strife
With swords upon this hill,
It is not wise to waste the life
Against a stubborn will.
Yet would we die as some have done.
Beating a way for the rising sun.

Added: on February 11th, 2007 at 12:04 AM | Viewed: 7621 times | Comments and analysis of The Day-Breakers by Arna Bontemps Comments (12)


The Day-Breakers - Comments and Information

Poet: Arna Bontemps
Poem: The Day-Breakers
Poem of the Day: Jan 20 2001

Comment 12 of 12, added on May 7th, 2008 at 12:24 PM.

Im not sure all of you are understanding this poem...hes not saying that we are slaves, he is speaking in the terms of a former slave. This is a magnificent poem

Bontemps at his best

Franny from Germany
Comment 11 of 12, added on April 21st, 2007 at 11:45 PM.

i think that this poem has a power ful mean and that this is one of his best works that he has hea always thinks about the slave trade as metioned hea was a good intelligent poet

Beatriz from United States
Comment 10 of 12, added on February 11th, 2007 at 12:04 AM.

Well. English not very well. I no understand poem. This does not show black people. I am offended by poem. We are not slaves. I am a fisherman.

Kufu Nzaba from Zambia

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Poet: Arna Bontemps
Poem: The Day-Breakers
Last read: Jul 9 2008, 5:12AM
Poem of the Day: Jan 20 2001
Viewed 7621 times.
Added on February 11th, 2007 at 12:04 AM.


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