... the passers by; All that my yearning spirit craves Is--Bury me not in a land of slaves! The poem Bury Me In a Free Land deals with the issue of having your final resting place in a place where there are slaves. The character in the poem wants her soul to be able to rest. She believes her ... saints all crowned with glory, And enrobed in spotless white. We said that our precious mother, Had gone to that land so fair, To dwell with beautiful angels, And to be forever there. But the child was sorely puzzled, Why dear grandmamma should go To dwell in a stranger city, When her children loved ...

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• Grade Level: High School

... journey to seek what the narrator believes is "true identity," a belief quite mistaken, for he, although unaware of it, had the power to his identity in hand all along, because of the society not recognizing him, the Brotherhood using him as a "machine", and "[walking] into a life that appears suddenly mysterious ... understand. During his first Brotherhood meeting, he exclaimed, "I am a new citizen of the country of your vision, a native of your fraternal land!" (Ellison 328). He preaches to others the fact that identity is transitional yet he does not accept it himself. Maybe he thought...

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