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Song for a Dark Girl
"Song for a Dark Girl"(1927) is a famous short poem by black American poet and novelist Langstone Hughes. Being an African American he always realized the social prejudices and discrimination acted upon his class in American society. He is often called as a poet of the Harlem Renaissance which brought the artistic freedom among the African Americans and inspired them to express their thought through poetry, painting, music(specially jazz and blues). "Song for a Dark Girl" is such a poem which shows the the intense suffering of a dark girl after her lover is being hanged in the southern state of America where whites were the dominating class.

The Poem
"Song for a Dark Girl" is a short poem contains only 12 lines. The poem is divided into three stanzas. The opening lines of each stanza contain same sentence "Way Down South in Dixie". The repetition of the line suggests in the white dominating southern state of America such incidents are frequents. In the first stanza, readers get familiar with the black girl whose dark lover has been hanged "To a cross roads tree."

The second stanza rises the most controversy. In this stanza the persona of the poem questions the role of religion in their suffering. She goes on to affirm that Christianity is not free from racial discrimination and hence the white almighty Jesus can never listen the cry of the black christians. She questions: "I asked the white Lord Jesus /What was the use of prayer"

The third stanza is a repetition of the dark girl's melancholic tone. She mourns to see her dark love as who is lying naked in the naked tree. The white "civilized" people has turned her love a naked shadow.

"Love is a naked shadow /On a gnarled and naked tree."