Reapers (Masterplots II: Poetry, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Jean Toomer
- First Published: 1923
- Type of Work: Lyric
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: African Americans, Blacks, Nature, Farms, farmers, or farming, Animals
The Poem
“Reapers” is a short poem of eight lines in iambic pentameter rhymed couplets, a form sometimes referred to as heroic couplets. It appears as the second piece in Jean Toomer’s Cane, a collection of short stories, sketches, and poems intended to show the beauty and strength of African American life. The poem is spoken by a first-person narrator, but this narrator neither enters the action nor comments on it. This is typical of the work collected in Cane: The narrator usually selects particular details to present to the reader but trusts the reader to...
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