Write a paragraph comparing and contrasting the performer's interpretation of "84" to the original text. Explain the effects of the performer's choices in interpreting the poem, and identify how the interpretation was similar to or different from your initial reading of the text.

over the green and yellow rice-fields

sweep the shadows or the autumn cloud followed by by the swift .

the bees forgot to sweep their honey ;

drunken with light they foolishly hover and

hum . the ducks in the islands of the river

clamour in joy for mere

let none go back home ,brothers ,this morninglet none got to work

let us take the blue sky of the storms and

plunder space as we run

laughter floats in the air like foam on

the flood . brothers , let us squander our

morning in the futile song .

- "the answers are a and b.  

when cullen speaks of planting while others reap, and standing "abject and mute," he is speaking about the racial injustices present in american society. as these injustices have changed over time, the american identity  has also shifted. those changes are, in turn, reflected in american literature."

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