Yet Do I Marvel

Countee Cullen * Track #92 On Emily Dickinson

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Countee Cullen

2015

Yet Do I Marvel by Countee Cullen

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Countee Cullen

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Cullen’s sonnet marvels at a God who so often makes people suffer. He links his modern struggle as a black poet in the early 20th century with the struggles of some of the most unfortunate characters in Greek classical myths.

Biographer Charles Molesworth borrowed the final phrase for the title of...

Yet Do I Marvel Annotated

I doubt not God is good, well-meaning, kind,
And did He stoop to quibble could tell why
The little buried mole continues blind,
Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die,
Make plain the reason tortured Tantalus
Is baited by the fickle fruit, declare
If merely brute caprice dooms Sisyphus
To struggle up a never-ending stair.
Inscrutable His ways are, and immune
To catechism by a mind too strewn
With petty cares to slightly understand
What awful brain compels His awful hand.
Yet do I marvel at this curious thing:
To make a poet black, and bid him sing!

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