Quatrain

Quatrain

1. A quatrain is a type of stanza, or a complete poem, consisting of four lines.

Quatrains
by Gwendolyn Bennett
1 Brushes and paints are all I have To speak the music in my soul— While silently there laughs at me A copper jar beside a pale green bowl. 2 How strange that grass should sing— Grass is so still a thing ... And strange the swift surprise of snow So soft it falls and slow.

I chose this picture to represent the poem because the author expresses how she expresses herself through art.

Gwendolyn Bennett

Born on July 8, 1902, in Giddings, Texas, Gwendolyn Bennett found success as a poet, fiction writer and journalist during the Harlem Renaissance with publications like The Crisis, New Negroand Opportunity. A visual artist as well, she later headed educational programs for the local African-American community. Having also worked in antiques with her second spouse, she died in Pennsylvania on May 30, 1981.

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