Skip to main content
Main navigation
Home
Poems
Poets
Schools of Poetry
Criticism
About
FAQs
User account menu
Log in
Powered by
Drupal
Subscribe to RSS feed
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
Home
-
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
The text for this poem is currently unavailable.
Poem Criticism
John Hatcher on: Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
Fred M. Fetrow: On "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves"
Pontheolla T. Williams: On "Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves"
Poem Details
Original Publication Year:
1978
Poet:
Robert Hayden
Poetic Form:
Quatrain
Other Poems by the Same Poet
Middle Passage
Runagate Runagate
A Letter from Phillis Wheatley
Those Winter Sundays
Aunt Jemima of the Ocean Waves
O Daedalus, Fly Away Home
The Dogwood Trees
Elegies for Paradise Valley
Night, Death, Mississippi
Poems that Share Poetic Form
280 (I felt a Funeral, in my Brain)
303 (The Soul selects her own Society)
754 (My Life had stood——a Loaded Gun——)
712 (Because I could not stop for Death)
258 (There's a certain Slant of light,)
657 (I dwell in Possibility——)
613 (They shut me up in Prose——)
601 (A still——Volcano——Life——)
520 (I started Early——Took my Dog——)
341 (After great pain, a formal feeling comes——)
The Armadillo
For the Union Dead
Aunt Jennifer's Tigers
The Need of Being Versed In Country Things
Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Gathering Leaves
In a Disused Graveyard
Desert Places
Neither Out Far Nor In Deep
Where It Ends
Refugee Ship
To a Dark Girl
The Boy Soprano
Medusa
The Crows
Women
A Black Man Talks of Reaping
Miracles
The Truth The Dead Know
Esta Noche
Esta Noche
Black Tambourine
Chaplinesque
Episode of Hands
Proem: to Brooklyn Bridge
#613 (445) ("They shut me up in Prose-")
#657 (466) ("I dwell in Possibility-")
For Love
To John Keats, Poet, at Spring Time
The Haunted Oak
#258 (320) ("There's a certain Slant of light,")
#712 (479) ("Because I could not stop for Death-")
#754 (764) ("My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-")
#303 (409) ("The Soul selects her own Society-")
#280 (340) ("I felt a Funeral, in my Brain")
#341 (372) ("After great pain, a formal feeling comes-")
#520 (656) ("I started Early-Took my Dog-")
#601 (517) ("A still-Volcano-Life-")
