The document below details some of what students need to know to prosper in Parnassus. Click on the images to return to class or home pages.

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Block Quoting a Poem: (Quoted from student work) Set the poem off from the text of your essay.

The wrong way:

"The Song of the Smoke," by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is a relatively short poem, but it has longimpact on the reader. The reader walks away knowing that the author is black, and proud. "I am the smoke king, I am black . . . I am darkening with song, I am hearkening to wrong; I will be black as blackness can, The blacker the mantle the mightier the man, My purpl'ing midnights no day dawn may ban. I am carving God in night, I am painting hell in white. I am the smoke king, I am black. " The words "I am black" repeat throughout the poem. By the end of the poem the reader will know that the author is black and proud.

The right way:

"The Song of the Smoke," by William Edward Burghardt Du Bois is a relatively short poem, but it has long impact on the reader. The reader walks away knowing that the author is black, and proud.

I am the smoke king, I am black . . .
I am darkening with song,
I am hearkening to wrong;
I will be black as blackness can,
The blacker the mantle the mightier the man,
My purpl'ing midnights no day dawn may ban.
I am carving God in night,
I am painting hell in white.
I am the smoke king, I am black.

The words "I am black" repeat throughout the poem. By the end of the poem the reader will know that the author is black and proud.