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    <title><![CDATA[LOVER'S RETURN]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 01 Jun 2011 14:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[My old time daddy Came back home last night. His face was pale and His eyes didn’t look just right. He says, “Mary, I’m Comin’ home to you So sick and lonesome I don’t know what to do.” Oh, men treats women Just like a pair o’ shoes You kicks ‘em round... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[LITTLE OLD LETTER]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 17:23:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It was yesterday morning I looked in my box for mail . The letter that I found there Made me turn right pale . Just a little old letter, Wasn’t even one page long— But it made me wish I was in my grave and gone . I turned it over, Not a word writ on the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ballad of the Fortune Teller]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 14:44:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I . THE POEM 1941 /1950 part of « lament over love » , series of « ballads » II. TITLE lament : a passionate expression of grief and sorrow ,a song, pièce of music or poem expressing such emotion,expression of regret, disappointment, a complaint. A ballad... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[New Yorkers]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 14:40:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[New Yorkers Traduction: Je suis né ici, Ce n’est pas un mensonge, dit-il Juste ici, sous le ciel de Dieu. Je ne suis pas née ici, dit-elle Je viens – et pourquoi? Je viens, De parents qui travaillent dur Toutes leurs vies Jusqu’à ce qu’ils meurent Et... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Lament over Love (Marion &amp; Léa)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 22 May 2011 12:24:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[The poem: Part of Lament over Love, it has the same name as the part. The title: « Lament over Love » It’s composed of 3 words. « Lament » : The narrator complains about Love and the pain that Love can provoke.alliteration in "l" Time and Setting: - We... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Madam and her Madam]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 22:18:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I-/ The Poem Madam and Her Madam I worked for a woman, She wasn't mean-- But she had a twelve-room House to clean. Had to get breakfast, Dinner, and supper, too-- Then take care of her children When I got through. Wash, iron, and scrub, Walk the dog around--... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;I, too&quot;]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 18:35:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I-The poem The poem "I, Too" was written by Langston Hughes in 1924. The section: Words like freedom. II-Title « I, Too » has major importance, because it implicates that multiple races make up the face of America and not only whites. Langston wants to... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[To be somebody]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 15:01:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[TO BE SOMEBODY Little girl Dreaming of a baby grand piano (Not knowing there’s a Steinway bigger, bigger) Dreaming of a baby grand piano to play That stretches paddle-tailed across the floor, Not standing upright Like a bad boy in the corner, But sending... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Ku Klux]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 21:27:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I – The poem. The poem was written in the early 1920′s . It belongs to the section ” Magnolia Flowers ”. II – The title. ”Ku klux ” keeps referring to the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan was a far-right organization founded in 1865 in the United States... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Harlem Night Song]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 10 May 2011 19:13:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Poem In the « selected poems « it appears in the fourth selection entitled Sea and Land. Futhermore, in the part Sea and Land we can remark that Langston Hughes speaks about natural places , women , and different countries II. Title Harlem : where he... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[October 16]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 20:19:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[October 16 I- The poem The poem was written between 1920 and 1930, It was published in 1931.It's one of LH's early poem. It belongs to the first selection entitled « Afro-American fragments » II- The Title By reading the title « October 16 », one may... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Judgment day]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 19:17:00 +0200</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Judgment Day They put ma body in the ground. Ma soul went flyin' o' the town, Went flyin'to the stars an' moon A-shoutin', God, I's comin' soon. O Jesus! Lord in heaven, Crown on his head, Says don't be 'fraid Cause you ain't dead. Kind Jesus! An' now... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Mother to son]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:43:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Well, son, I'll tell you: Life for me ain't been no crystal stair. It's had tacks in it, And splinters, And boards torn up, And places with no carpet on the floor— Bare. But all the time I'se been a-climbin' on, And reachin' landin's, And turnin' corners,... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Song for Billie Holiday]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jan 2011 09:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[What can purge my heart Of the song And the sadness? What can purge my heart But the song Of the sadness? What can purge my heart Of the sadness Of the song? Do not speak of sorrow With dust in her hair, Or bits of dust in eyes A chance wind blows there.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[NEGRO]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:29:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I am a Negro: Black as the night is black, Black like the depths of my Africa. I’ve been a slave: Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean. I brushed the boots of Washington. I’ve been a worker: Under my hand the pyramids arose. I made mortar for the... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[THE WEARY BLUES]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 10 Jan 2011 09:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[1 Droning a drowsy syncopated tune, 2 Rocking back and forth to a mellow croon, 3 I heard a Negro play. 4 Down on Lenox Avenue the other night 5 By the pale dull pallor of an old gas light 6 He did a lazy sway .... 7 He did a lazy sway .... 8 To the tune... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[THE NEGRO SPEAKS OF RIVERS]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 08:15:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[AUNT SUE'S STORIES]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 05 Dec 2010 16:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Aunt Sue has a head full of stories. Aunt Sue has a whole heart full of stories. Summer nights on the front porch Aunt Sue cuddles a brown-faced child to her bosom And tells him stories. Black slaves Working in the hot sun, And black slaves Walking in... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[JUST FOR FUN....]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 27 Nov 2010 15:34:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[BESSIE SMITH]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:01:00 +0100</pubDate>
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    <title><![CDATA[Zora Neale Hurston]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Fri, 19 Nov 2010 08:24:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Childhood Zora Neale Hurston was born on January 7, 1903 , in Eatonville, Florida. She was the fifth of eight children of the Rey John Hurston, who became a mayor of Eatonville. Zora's mother, Lucy that was a teacher, died when Zora was thirteen years... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Jacob Lawrence (Emilie-Fabien-Marion-Alexandre)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Mon, 08 Nov 2010 08:51:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Jacob Lawrence "I've always been interested in history, but they never taught Negro history in the public schools... I don't see how a history of the United States can be written honestly without including the Negro." Jacob Lawrence Jacob Lawrence was... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[&quot;You've got to find a way of saying it without saying it&quot; -Duke Ellington]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 21:13:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[It Don't Mean A Thing "It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that swing It don't mean a thing all you got to do is sing It makes no difference If it's sweet or hot Just give that rhythm Everything you've got It don't mean a thing, if it ain't got that... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[Billie Holiday ( Mylène, Séverine, Marion. L)]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sun, 07 Nov 2010 18:57:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Billie Holiday April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959 Billie « Lady Day » Holiday was born in Baltimore in 1915. She was an American jazz singer and songwriter. She knew a childhood very difficult to put into verse by rape, prostitution and passage in prison.... ]]></description>
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    <title><![CDATA[THE COTTON CLUB]]></title>
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    <pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 11:22:00 +0100</pubDate>
    <description><![CDATA[Heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson opened the Club De Luxe at 142nd Street and Lenox Avenue in Harlem in 1920. Owney Madden, a prominent bootleggerand gangster, took over the club in 1923 while imprisoned in Sing Sing and changed its name to the... ]]></description>
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