Vanessa Rangel Period:4

2.20.13

1. Name and address of the website you fount the poem on. 2. What is the name of the poem? 3. Who is the author of the poem? 4. Insert a picture of the author.

The website, I when on is poetry Foundation. A Black Man Talks Of Reaping The author name is Arna Bontemps.

5. What does the title tell you about the poem? 6. Explain the first thing you notice about the poem? 7. Why did you Black History Month is select this poem? How did it cool. interest or inspire you? We celebrate it because the 8. What mood did poem create in you after from all the native reading it?

American and how they are what they did for us. It is important because see the work they did and how they were slaves its sad. I selected this poem because it look very interesting and it made

It is Talking about a Black man who talks of reaping. That he was a famous poetry man in world. I have sown beside all waters in my it because it was very I pick day. I planted Also within my interesting. deep,it was sad heart the fear and interesting. that wind or was reading I felt sad how I fowl would take the grain away. the poem. I planted safe against this stark, lean year. I scattered seed enough to plant the land in rows from Canada to Mexico but for my reaping only what the hand can hold at once is all that I can show. Yet what I sowed and what the