For his target audience of black readers, however, Cullen knew exactly what he was saying just as clearly as he realized that most of those readers would know what he was saying. It is subtle, to be sure, especially for white readers. “So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds, Some scholars have identified the ending of this poem as the beginning of the black activist movement moving into the mainstream:
The final two lines of Countee Cullen’s Petrarchan sonnet “ From the Dark Tower” are nothing less than astonishing.
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