A poem by this author wonders why his mind strays "the Grecian Urn to muse on Uncle Jim." For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this Harlem Renaissance poet, who asked why God would "make a poet black, and bid him sing" in the sonnet "Yet Do I Marvel."
ANSWER: Countee Cullen [or Countee LeRoy Porter]
[10e] A Countee Cullen poem dedicated to this earlier poet "at Spring-Time" describes how this poet "still can push the Vision Splendid to a birth." This poet wrote "Ode on a Grecian Urn."
ANSWER: John Keats
[10h] In a poem about this specific group of people, Cullen notes that although poets should let their words "like lightning dart into the nation's heart," they have "raised no cry. I wonder why." That poem argues that an event that happened to this group is "worth its song."
ANSWER: Scottsboro Boys [orScottsboro Youths; or Scottsboro Teens] (The poem is "Scottsboro, Too, is Worth its Song.")
<Eve Fleisig , Literature - American poetry>