question was:"How does "Cane" make use of the blues, jazz, spirituals, or other forms of African American Music? Can you detect any parallels with James Baldwin's "Sonny's Blues"?

Reaction Paper - Jean Toomer, "Cane" <Tab/>One not only reads Toomer, one hears him; his words live beyond the page, full of rhythm, sight and sound. In the introduction it is said, "Toomer spent his later years wondering why the reading public of his day failed to see that 'Cane was a song of an end', a song that had helped Toomer to put the racial disquiet within himself to …

…obvious works of songs and music in Cane like "Cotton Song", "Song of the Son", "Evening Song", and "Harvest Song" Writing and performing was a way for Toomer and James Baldwin's Sonny to communicate feelings. Jean Toomer did this in all his works just as Sonny in his music. They poured their soul and made music. Threaded through the poems and the stories are the painfully real images of life. <Tab/>