James Weldon Johnson is a simple poet, delivering bars in clean lines and succinct stanzas. Much of his religious poetry is long and epic in scale, but his message of freedom and suffering is universal in its scope. A black man living in a post-slavery society, Johnson was more of a preacher delivering sermons thanContinue reading “An analysis of the poem ‘Let My People Go’, by James Weldon Johnson”
Poetry Analysis
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