LITERATURE QUESTIONS
AFRICAN AMERICAN LITERATURE
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The poem’s form of rhymed tetrameter couplets.
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The poem shows her future work as a advocate of civil rights.
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The poem is filled with Christian symbolism.
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The fact that the poem is the most accurate account of the 1742 Indian-White engagement in Deerfield, Massachusetts.
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Bars Fight” is a ballad poem written by Lucy Terry about an attack upon two white families by Native Americans on August 25, 1746. The incident occurred in an area of Deerfield called “The Bars", which was a colonial term for a meadow.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Bars Fight’ is a ballad about an attack on two white families by Native Americans. The title of the poem comes from the area where the attack took place, The Bars is an area in Deerfield. It was first published in Gilbert Holland’s History of Western Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-3: -Although best known as the author of the first poem composed by an African American woman, Lucy Terry Prince was a remarkable woman whose many accomplishments included arguing a case before the Supreme Court. Lucy was stolen from Africa as an infant and sold to Ebenezer Wells of Deerfield, Massachusetts.
Detailed explanation-4: -Terry was considered a born storyteller and poet. Her only surviving work, the poem “Bars Fight” (1746), is the earliest existing poem by an African American. It was transmitted orally for more than 100 years, first appearing in print in 1855.