Black Woman (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Léopold Senghor
- First Published: 1945
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Africa or Africans, Blacks, France or French people, Love or romance, Beauty, Women
The Poem
“Black Woman” is a short poem in free verse, with eighteen lines divided into three stanzas of five lines each and one stanza of three lines. It is written in the first person and is addressed directly to the woman of the title, the black woman who gives the poem its theme.
This was one of many poems written when Léopold Senghor was living abroad, away from his own country of Senegal. During this period, he was a student in Paris and wrote about his childhood, which he viewed as a kind of paradise. These poems abound in his memories of Africa—an Africa...
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