Sunday Afternoons (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: James Willie Brown
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Poem
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Children, Parents and children, Sex or sexuality, Yards or backyards, Animals
“Sunday Afternoons” is one of a number of poems wherein Komunyakaa explores childhood memories. In this case, it is the remembrance of how his parents would expel their four boys from the house in order to have the space and time for sexual relations.
The poem is divided roughly into two parts. The first four stanzas focus on the collective experience of the speaker and his siblings as they run wild outside the house, intoxicated by their temporary freedom from parental restraint. The final three stanzas focus on the speaker, the individual “I” of the poem, and his...
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