Black Tambourine (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Hart Crane
- First Published: 1921
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Racism, Blacks, Slavery or slaves, Music or musicians, Folklore, Greece or Greek people, Insects, Fables
The Poem
“Black Tambourine” is written in three stanzas, each a quatrain with end rhymes on the second and fourth lines. This poem, brief as it is, is like much of Hart Crane’s poetry: It carries suggestiveness to an extreme, never openly revealing its hand. The poem, though it appears to take a lyrical pleasure in measure and imagery, is told rather than spoken, allowing the reader to imagine that it may be a meditation rather than a lyric. The words seem to be said for their own sake. There is, in a sense, no definable speaker or audience.
The poem begins with...
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