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Margaret Walker was a novelist, poet, scholar, and teacher. She was best known for her Civil War novel Jubilee and her collection of poetry about racial affirmation. Her first poem was published in Crisis in 1934. Later on, she continued to write poetry, her most popular one being "For My People" which was about encouraging and inspiring African Americans who were struggling against white supremacy.

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My roots are deep in southern life; deeper than John Brown or Nat Turner or Robert Lee. I was sired and weaned in a tropic world. The palm tree and banana leaf, mango and coconut, breadfruit and rubber trees know me.

Warm skies and gulf blue streams are in my blood. I belong with the smell of fresh pine, with the trail of coon, and the spring growth of wild onion.

I am no hothouse bulb to be reared in steam-heated flats with the music of El and subway in my ears, walled in by steel and wood and brick far from the sky.

I want the cotton fields, tobacco and the cane. I want to walk along with sacks of seed to drop in fallow ground. Restless music is in my heart and I am eager to be gone.

O Southland, sorrow home, melody beating in my bone and blood! How long will the Klan of hate, the hounds and the chain gangs keep me from my own?

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I initially chose this poem because the title was intriguing to me. In this poem, Margaret is reminiscing about how at home she felt when she lived down in the Southland. She longs to feel "Warm skies and blue gulf streams," that she claims runs through her blood.

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Throughout "Sorrow Home", there are uses of figurative language such as a metaphor when she says, "My roots are deep in southern life" sort of referencing herself as a tree. Another form of figurative language used a bit more imagery, an example of this being, "I belong with the smell of fresh pine, with the trail of coon, and the spring growth of wild onion." By using these in her literature, Margaret was able to express to the reader what it's like to be kept from your home/comfort place.

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What is the situation and what is the setting in time (era) and place?

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What is the situation and what is the setting in time (era) and place?

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This poem, this is taking place in an era where segregation was considered normal. In the end, she says," How long will the Klan of hate, the hounds and the chain gangs keep me from my own?" While referring to the "Klan of hate" I believe Walker is referencing the actions of the KKK at the time.