{"id":923,"date":"2020-12-06T21:44:24","date_gmt":"2020-12-06T21:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jefferson-africanamericanlit\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=923"},"modified":"2021-04-13T23:27:53","modified_gmt":"2021-04-13T23:27:53","slug":"countee-cullen-poems","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/suny-jefferson-africanamericanlit\/chapter\/countee-cullen-poems\/","title":{"raw":"Countee Cullen Poems","rendered":"Countee Cullen Poems"},"content":{"raw":"<a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/countee-cullen\">https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/countee-cullen<\/a>\r\n\r\nCullen is self-consciously forging an identity as an African-American poet.\u00a0 To what extent does he \"play by the rules\" of Western poetry at the time?\r\nTo what extent does he innovate?\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/d\/d6\/Counteecullen.jpg\/220px-Counteecullen.jpg\" alt=\"Countee Cullen, photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1941\" width=\"220\" height=\"326\" \/>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"mw-mmv-source-author\"><span class=\"mw-mmv-author\"><a class=\"extiw\" title=\"w:en:Carl Van Vechten\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/en:Carl_Van_Vechten\">Carl Van Vechten<\/a> <\/span> - <span class=\"mw-mmv-source\"><a class=\"external text\" href=\"https:\/\/www.loc.gov\/pictures\/collection\/van\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">Van Vechten Collection<\/a> at <a class=\"extiw\" title=\"en:Library of Congress\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Library_of_Congress\">Library of Congress<\/a><\/span><\/span>","rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/countee-cullen\">https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/countee-cullen<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cullen is self-consciously forging an identity as an African-American poet.\u00a0 To what extent does he &#8220;play by the rules&#8221; 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