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A Study Guide for James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation," excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Students for all of your research needs.
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A Study Guide for James Weldon Johnson's "The Creation" - Gale
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The Creation
James Weldon Johnson
1920
Introduction
The Creation,
which first appeared in the periodical Freeman in 1920, was published in 1927 as part of a volume of poetry entitled God’s Trombones: Seven Negro Sermons in Verse, and is widely regarded as the best piece in the collection. In Slave Religion, Albert Robateau says that the symbols, myths and values of the Judeo-Christian tradition helped form the slave community’s image of itself.
In this poem, the author illustrates that idea, telling the Biblical story of Creation in the form of a sermon, with a Negro dialect, thereby treating the story as part of African-American tradition rather than as an account taken directly from Western culture. Johnson follows the structure of the standard version of the tale, using the same order of events and the same technique of repetition that is used in the Bible. But the language God uses, though He speaks only a few times, is easily recognized as southern, as Negro. The implication at the end of the poem is that, since God is Negro and made humans in His image, then Negroes are His chosen people. This would have been a striking lesson during Johnson’s time, considering that in the United States blacks were often segregated from white society and treated as
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