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    A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Storm Ending"
    A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Storm Ending"
    A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Storm Ending"
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    A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Storm Ending"

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    A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Storm Ending," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCengage Learning - Gale
    Release dateSep 2, 2016
    ISBN9781535834209
    A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Storm Ending"

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      A Study Guide for Jean Toomer's "Storm Ending" - Gale

      09

      Storm Ending

      Jean Toomer

      1922

      Introduction

      Storm Ending is a short poem by Jean Toomer that first appeared in the literary magazine Double Dealer in September 1922. The next year Toomer included it in Cane, a critically acclaimed collection of poetry and prose about the lives of African Americans in the rural South and in Washington, D.C. Although on the surface Storm Ending seems just an evocation of a nature scene, depicting the end of a rainstorm and the emergence of the sun, because of its placement in Cane, commentators sometimes attempt to connect it to African American themes. The poem has also been described as belonging to the modernist school of imagism and being a collection of not altogether coherent images. One pair of critics have described it as being cubist, a reference to the experimental artistic movement of the early twentieth century usually associated with painters such as Pablo Picasso, in which objects are presented in fragmented form.

      Although some of the poems in Cane, especially in the first part of the book, are written in conventional forms and have been described as lyrical or songlike, Storm Ending, like the other poems in Part Two of Cane, is more experimental, being written in unrhymed free verse. Besides appearing in the various editions of Cane that have appeared since 1923, Storm Ending was also published in the 1988 edition of The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer, edited by Robert B. Jones and Margery Toomer

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