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Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden

The poem celebrates Frederick Douglass and his fight for freedom and equality. It describes Douglass as a former slave who endured beating and exile but remained a visionary leader in the fight for a world where all people can live freely without feeling lonely, hunted or alien. The poem states that Douglass will be remembered not just through statues or poems, but through how his life and dream of freedom will continue to influence and shape the lives of future generations.

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Frederick Douglass by Robert Hayden

The poem celebrates Frederick Douglass and his fight for freedom and equality. It describes Douglass as a former slave who endured beating and exile but remained a visionary leader in the fight for a world where all people can live freely without feeling lonely, hunted or alien. The poem states that Douglass will be remembered not just through statues or poems, but through how his life and dream of freedom will continue to influence and shape the lives of future generations.

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Frederick Douglass By Robert Hayden

When it is finally ours, this freedom, this liberty, this beautiful


and terrible thing, needful to man as air,
usable as earth; when it belongs at last to all,
when it is truly instinct, brain matter, diastole, systole,
reflex action; when it is finally won; when it is more
than the gaudy mumbo jumbo of politicians:
this man, this Douglass, this former slave, this Negro
beaten to his knees, exiled, visioning a world
where none is lonely, none hunted, alien,
this man, superb in love and logic, this man
shall be remembered. Oh, not with statues’ rhetoric,
not with legends and poems and wreaths of bronze alone,
but with the lives grown out of his life, the lives
fleshing his dream of the beautiful, needful thing.
Questions:
1. Identify the following devices:
Assonance Metaphor Symbolism Imagery Repetition

2. What is the theme of the poem?

3. What is the tone of the poem?


Lord Harris Square

Lord Harris Square between Pembroke and Abercromby Streets, Port of


Spain, established in the early 1990s, is named as a tribute to Lord
Harris, Governor of Trinidad between 1848 and 1854. Lord Harris was
one of Trinidad’s most progressive Governors. After the abolition of
slavery and the introduction of indentured labour from India. Lord
Harris was caught between the pressures of the planters and
importation of labour. In 1849 and 1851, he halted immigration from
India in 1852 immigration was reopened with safeguards including the
presence of a Protector of Immigrants and free passages for the wives
of immigrants and their children.

Lord Harris was also responsible for introducing an education system


based on ‘general instruction on secular lines’ out of which Queens
Royal College was established. He also established the Model Training
School for Teachers and, with Justice Knox in 1851, the Public Library on
Knox Street, Port of Spain. In 1849, as the old Spanish Quarter Barrios
and Parishes no longer functioned properly, he passed an ordinance
reorganizing Trinidad into northern and southern districts, each further
divided into four countries each, as it is today. Lord Harris was
responsible for commissioning in 1854, a pipe-born water supply
system to Port of Spain from storage tanks in Maraval.

Lord Harris promoted the exploitation of asphalt from the pitch lake
and was responsible for developing communications through road
systems, including in 1853 building a road through the Oropouche
Lagoon and Trinidad’s first railway connecting San Fernando to the
Cipero Creek, used primarily for transporting sugar. Lord Harris married
a Trinidadian, Sarah Cummins. His son George Robert Canning, the 4th
Lord Harris and known as the “cricketing Lord Harris”, was responsible
for promoting cricket throughout the British colonies.

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