Friday, January 3, 2003

Harlem Shadows Comments

Rating: ★2.7

I hear the halting footsteps of a lass
In Negro Harlem when the night lets fall
Its veil. I see the shapes of girls who pass
To bend and barter at desire's call.
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Claude McKay
night poverty
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Ahmed Gumaa Siddiek 20 September 2016

So sympathetic and expressive with high human feelings towards the lost girls in Harlem.

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cynthia williams 03 January 2010

My thoughts on Claude McKays poem 'Harlem Shadows' is how on key he was about how some young African American women used prostitution to trade for drugs.

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