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Poem "To Young Politicians"
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Title
Poem "To Young Politicians"
Description
This poem is narrated by someone who feels left behind by a charismatic politician. References are made to the politician's constituents as being "scraps of self" and asking too much by expecting the politician to make their burdens his or her own, and the narrator claims that the politician led them in order to cleanse his or her own soul. This implies that these constituents were usually left behind and ignored in the political sphere, and that this politician only continued that history of abandonment.
Creator
Source
Mayor, Alisa G. "To Young Politicians." The Messenger (Fall 1990): 25. Available online via the UR Scholarship Repository.
Publisher
The Messenger, University of Richmond
Date
1990
Language
English
Type
Identifier
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Coverage
Richmond (Va.)
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Citation
Mayor, Alisa G., “Poem "To Young Politicians",” University of Richmond Race & Racism Project, accessed October 15, 2024, https://memory.richmond.edu/items/show/3279.