Exploring Anti-Black Violence and Racial Injustice in Countee Cullen’s “Incident” (1925) and Natasha Trethewey’s “Incident” (2007)

In at least 500 words, consider how the poets Countee Cullen and Natasha Trethewey have addressed anti-Black violence and racial injustice by considering the relationship between Cullen’s “Incident” (1925) and Trethewey’s “Incident” (2007). Make sure to take into account how the different forms of these poems shape their meaning; to quote lines from both poems as evidence; and to consider the titles of these poems as well as the fact that they were published 82 years apart.

How does literature provide us with opportunities to reflect on our own values and principles that guide our lives, often by discovering alternative ways of looking at the world? How does literature open doorways onto the perspectives of other peoples, times, and cultures and help us imagine diverse ways of being human?

For instructions on how to quote poetry, see here.
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