Read the poem "To a Dark Girl" by Gwendolyn Bennett.
Gwendolyn Bennet was a dynamic figure in the Harlem Renaissance. She was an artist, poet, journalist, and essayist. Her most well-known poem is "To a Dark Girl."
Readers can conclude that despite having been enslaved, the dark girl is quite regal in her appearance.
Highlight the lines that best convey this idea.
To a Dark Girl
by Gwendolyn Bennett
I love you for your brownness,
And the rounded darkness of your breast,
I love you for the breaking sadness in your voice
And shadows where your wayward eyelids rest.
Something of old forgotten queens
Lurks in the lithe abandon of your walk
And something of the shackled slave
Sobs in the rhythm of your talk.
Oh, little brown girl, born for sorrow's mate,
Keep all you have of queenliness,
Forgetting that you once were slave,
And let your full lips laugh at Fate!
