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Karintha's child, born into the forest, is also a part of nature. Karintha resembles a "November cotton flower," an image Toomer develops into a poem later in Part 1. Surrounding images, like smoke, pine needles, and red dust, recur throughout Part 1 to create a unique, cohesive atmosphere. The emphasis on the soul is repeated throughout Cane ...
Cane Summary and Analysis of “Karintha” to “Evening Song”. Summary. Karintha (prose) Men always desired Karintha, even when she was a small child. She was a whirl of energy and mischief, a wild flash. Rumors were spread even when she was young. Houses in Georgia were two rooms: in one you cooked and ate, in the other you slept and made ...
- Jean Toomer
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Karintha is a woman. She who carries beauty, perfect as dusk when the sun goes down. She has been married many times. Old men remind her that a few years back they rode her hobby-horse upon their knees. Karintha smiles, and indulges them when she is in the mood for it. She has contempt for them.
Cane Summary. Cane is notoriously difficult to summarize because it is not exactly a novel; rather, it is a collection of short prose pieces, poems, and a longer short-story/drama hybrid. However, there are a few ways to look at the overarching work, especially as it comes in three parts. Part I is set in the South (Georgia, specifically).
- Jean Toomer
The Merrill Studies in “Cane.” Columbus, Ohio: Charles E. Merrill, 1971. Includes critical studies of Cane from 1923 to 1969. Of special interest is Waldo Frank’s foreword to the first (1923 ...
Part. Summary. Part 1, Karintha. The vignettes and stories in Part 1 take place in a rural community in the southern state of Georgia. "Karintha" i... Read More. Part 1, Poems (Reapers–Song of the Son) The poems in Part 1 borrow from folk songs, spirituals, and imagist techniques. "Reapers" is an eight-line poem ...
Imagery: The Show ("Box Seat") The penultimate scene of the story is a grinning, grotesque dwarf threateningly offering Muriel a bloody rose that she is forced to take. The disturbing scene is a powerful image of the artifice and thinly-veiled violence of the North. Muriel, a black woman, is under the scrutiny of the dwarf and the community at ...
