Quickly going over "Heritage" by Countee Cullen The poem is an acknowledgment of his African roots. -haunted by the past (leaving it behind and looking to the future) "What is Africa to me?"- restlessness associated with the narrator -shows his ambivalence (torn between African roots and American culture) Intrusion of Western culture-"what is last year's snow to me?" -unless he wants to perish, he has to set aside his pride "They and I"- 'I' being the mediation (Western world and Africa) -both are civilized in a sense
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