Sympathy
by Paul Laurence Dunbar

Name: Sympathy
Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar

LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 different recordings of Sympathy, by Paul Laurence Dunbar in honor of Martin Luther King Day. Listeners will recognize a line from this poem as being the title of Maya Angelou's 1969 novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of January 14th, 2007.

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Poetry Non-Fiction Drama

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Realism Oppression Freedom Race Identity Hope Suffering Naturalism Poetry Empathy Social Justice African American Bird Cage Sentimentality

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

United States

Paul Laurence Dunbar was an American poet, novelist, and short story writer of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Born in Dayton, Ohio, to parents who had been enslaved in Kentucky before the Ame...

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