Robert Hayden was born on August 4, 1913 and died on February 25, 1980. He was an American poet, essayist, and educator. He served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1976 to 1978, a role today known as US Poet Laureate. He was the first African-American writer to hold the office.
Robert Hayden was born in Detroit, Michigan, son of Ruth and Asa Sheffey. The couple separated before his birth. He was taken in by a foster family next door, Sue Ellen Westerfield and William Hayden, and grew up in a Detroit ghetto nicknamed "Paradise Valley". The Haydens' eternally belligerent marriage, coupled with Ruth Sheffey’s competition for her son's affections, made for a traumatic childhood. Witnessing fights and suffering beatings, Hayden lived in a house troubled with chronic anger. His childhood traumas resulted in debilitating bouts of depression that he later called "my dark nights of the soul".
Before answering the question, I would like to mention what we call free verse poetry. It is poetry that is free from limitations of regular meter or rhythm, and does not rhyme with fixed forms. Such poems are without rhythm and rhyme schemes, do not follow regular rhyme scheme rules, yet still provide artistic expression.
We can conclude that the present poem is written in free verse because:
There is no rhyme scheme.
The lines are unequal in length.
<em>The other options present limitations or patterns which are the opposite characteristics of free verse.</em>
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The crew of community helpers descended the riverbank, each member wondering what was in store for their day of service. They wore protective gloves and toted trash bags, and they hoped they could make a difference for the environment. As soon as they reached the clearing by the riverbank, they knew they would be busy.
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That she hath engrossed us is true, and defended the continent at our expense as well as her own is admitted, and she would have defended Turkey from the same motive, viz., the sake of trade and dominion.
We have boasted the protection of Great Britain, without considering, that her motive was interest not attachment
Explanation:
They are the only sentence mentioning Great Britain's interests.
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A persistence
Explanation: He is persistent because he keeps trying. he never gives up.
In "A Raisin in the Sun" shows Mama's dream someday of having her own little garden at the back of her own house. Though she's close at quitting and giving up her dream, nurturing her plants simply implies that she's not giving up her dream, herself and of course, her children as well.
