Unit 2 - Poems

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Across
  1. 3. "The Haunted ____" is a poem that poignantly addresses the horrors of lynching in America
  2. 4. Dylan Thomas believes we should do this "against the dying of the light"
  3. 5. We read a poem called "Some ______ for Those who Will Serve Time in Prison"
  4. 7. John Donne claimed that "Death" should not be _____
  5. 9. If a poem contains dark imagery and references to mortality, it is this type
  6. 10. In the poem "Youth" it states, "We have tomorrow bright before us like a ____"
  7. 13. Paul Laurence ______ is considered one of the first Black Americans to make their living as a writer
  8. 14. This poem refers to "a raisin in the sun"
  9. 15. They keep ringing throughout life, with "the"
Down
  1. 1. Poet Nikki Giovanni starts her poem with the words, "If Black History Month is not _____"
  2. 2. It "sings of things unknown... but longed for still"
  3. 6. "What happens to a dream _____?"
  4. 8. Lord Byron wrote this poem about an apocalyptic dream he had
  5. 9. Dylan Thomas also tells us not to "go _____ into that good night"
  6. 11. Poet Maya _____ wrote "The Caged Bird" about racial oppression
  7. 12. Langston _____ was an intrumental part of the Harlem Rennaissance