The Slave In The Dismal Swamp

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow wrote poetry like John Singer Sargent painted portraits, with "economy of stroke", and this poem shows Longfellow's familiarity with and sympathy for the slavery issues of his day, and the ghastly contrast between nature's beauty and man-made hell. A contemporary of Harriet Beecher Stowe (author of Uncle Tom's Cabin), both used their literary art to raise consciousness of this intolerable practice. (Michele Fry) (0 hr 23 min)

Chapitres

The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by ALP	1:45	Lu par Algy Pug
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by BK	2:19	Lu par Bruce Kachuk
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by DL	1:44	Lu par David Lawrence
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by EL	1:59	Lu par Newgatenovelist
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by FH	1:37	Lu par Foon
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by GG	2:16	Lu par Greg Giordano
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by GRS	2:00	Lu par Graham Scott
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by IB	1:39	Lu par Isaiah Barker
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by KJH	1:35	Lu par KHand
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by LCW	1:37	Lu par Larry Wilson
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by MTF	1:42	Lu par Michele Fry
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by RAJ	1:41	Lu par RajVO
The Slave In The Dismal Swamp- Read by TP	1:57	Lu par Tomas Peter