Title: The Best Poems about Prejudice and Discrimination – Interesting Literature
Headings: The Best Poems about Prejudice and Discrimination
The Best Poems about Prejudice and Discrimination
By Dr Oliver Tearle
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The Best Poems about Prejudice and Discrimination
By Dr Oliver Tearle
Poems dealing with racist prejudice and discrimination – or, indeed, prejudice and discrimination of other kinds – have been around since at least the age of the Romantics, who wrote powerfully about, and against, the slave trade and empire. Below, we’ve picked some of the greatest poems addressing issues of prejudice, racism, and related themes. William Blake, ‘ The Little Black Boy ’. My mother bore me in the southern wild,
And I am black, but O! my soul is white; White as an angel is the English child: But I am black as if bereav’d of light. Blake (1757-1827) often wrote about injustice and prejudice, and this is one of his most powerful poems addressing the issue of racial prejudice and slavery. The poem is spoken by the African boy who acknowledges that his skin is black whereas a white English child’s is white, but the black boy’s soul is white too: i.e., as spotless and pure as a white boy’s.