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Yusef Komunyakaa — Praising Dark Places
Poetry Unbound
Light and Dark Metaphors
A brilliant poem describes a boy's amazement at the hidden world under a piece of board, where insects thrive in darkness. The poem also explores the shift in voice halfway through, pondering on light as an interruption to the natural darkness where insects flourish. It questions the traditional symbolism of light as good and dark as difficult in poetry, public language, and religion.
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