A Christmas Folksong Comments

It's goin' to be a green Christmas — Des hyeah my words an' see: Befo' de summah beckons Dey's many'll weep wid me. very good poem. tony

Nice. Now am gonna stop fretn bout spelling. The tongue came on a ship with delirious scurvy infested one eyed colonists.

We own the language of cultural slang when we claim it, as Paul Laurence Dunbar claims the strength of cultural slang in his poem 'A Christmas Folksong', a powerful haunting mourning poem, which requires several readings and research into the background stimulus for the poems writing. Hauntingly wonderful.

Nice poem. I love the christmas poem.

I need to read up on Paul Laurence Dunbar. Yet without knowing his history, this reaches out with its dialect and its sorrow to touch the reader's heart. I suspect that I will be thinking upon this one for some time to come.

Perhaps Paul was brooding on his forthcoming death in this poem. It's a bit sad that one of the leaders of black emancipation should fall back into patois. What a brilliant poem this would have been if he had stayed within his education. Then again, perhaps his choice of rendering makes it more heart rending; s powerful.