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 * ==Dudley Randall  ==

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||> =Bio= ==Dudley Randall was born January 14th 1914 in Washington D.C. Throughout his life he was a poet, editor, publishor, and founder of the Broadside Press. He published his first poem when he was thirteen which appeared in the //Detriot Free Press.// He learned form English poets in his early reading. [|Jean Toomer's]and Countee Cullen's work influenced him.== ==Randall served in the military during WWII and wrote poems such as "[|Coral Atoll]" and "Pacific Epitapns" that reflected his military experiences.In 1949 and 1951, Dudley earned degrees in English and library science while he worked in a post office. For five years he was a librarian at Morgan State and at Lincoln. In 1969 he became a poet and librarian at the University of Detriot. Dudley Randall retired in 1974.==
 * Randall had a great interest in Russia and Africa which influenced poems such as, "I loved you once", "My Native Land", and "African Suite."In 1968, Randall published a group of thirteen poems called, "Cities Burning." Dudley Randall is remembered today for being an independent African American but he is mostly remembered for his beautiful poems.** ||

Poetry links

 * * http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/59439-Dudley-Randall-The-Profile-on-the-Pillow
 * __ http://www.ctadams.com/dudleyrandall3.html __
 * __ http://www.huarchivesnet.howard.edu/9908huarnet/randall.htm __
 * __ http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/65256-Dudley-Randall-Rabaul __
 * __ http://oldpoetry.com/oauthor/show/Dudley_Randall __
 * __ http://oldpoetry.com/opoem/65256-Dudley-Randall-Rabaul __ ||> [[image:http://images.google.com/url?q=http://www.ekfestival.org/images/ekjr_3.jpg&usg=AFQjCNG9npLRSAluwZvfWxSdJYRMPcTUlg width="207" height="186"]] ||

Explication of "Rabaul"
==There is a perfect example of Randall showing his feelings about war and people being imprisoned inspired him to write such a poem a this. [|Rabaul] has only three lines but is t seems to have a total effect. In the poem he is the narrator and is the prisoner in the poem, there is no specific date or time and, the audience are the readers. But, Rabaul was a place where many many many people after WWII were imprisoned by the japanese. If you had read the Randall is saying " I died for demorcacy. Better I fell in Mississippi" he sounds miserable and depressed that he tried to die for his rights and freedom, but better if he never tried at all and just gave up.==  == Randall made sure that he would get the readers attention. But the questions is how can a three- lined poem have an effect? It mostly has to do with the history of Rabaul and about it prisoners. learing the history can give the poem some sense and understanding. These types of poems is what Randall was most famous for. His poems would go back to the past and to the present. ==

==Gustein, Dan. " Randall, Dudley." __Beltway: Poetry Quarterly.__ Flannery O'Connor Library, Atlanta, GA. 17 Nov. 2008. == ==Nelson, Cary. "Dudely Randall [1914-200]". __Modern American poetry.__ Flannery O'Connor Library, Atlanta, GA. 16 Nov. 2008. ==


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