... in the public school system. During this time he was able to produce a novel, One Way to Heaven, which was produced in 1932 and two years later there was The Medea and several other poems. Cullen believed that in order to be a great poet you had to master and accept standard poetic forms, tropes, and meters Americans inherited from European traditions ... ...

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