Essay about rhythmic style in the poem "Runagate Runagate" by Robert Hayden

"Every morning in Africa a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must run faster than the lion or it will not survive. Every morning a lion wakes up and it knows it must run faster than the slowest gazelle or it will starve. It doesn't matter if you are the lion or the gazelle, when the sun comes up you better be running." Maurice Greene.         Animals need to run in order to survive in the …

…reader has a better visualization.         Hayden's poem shows many viewpoints of what happens when a slave runs away. Hayden has the views of a slave who escaped, a slave who got caught, a slave owner whose slave escaped, Harriet Tubman, and those who wanted Harriet Tubman caught. Hayden inserts rhythm, anaphora, personification, and metaphors in his poem in order to give the reader a good visualization when reading the poem "Runagate Runagate" by Robert Hayden.