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Storm Ending
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Overview
“Storm Ending” by Jean Toomer was originally published in the September 1922 issue of Double Dealer 4, but the poem is best known as part of Toomer’s most famous book, Cane, which was first published in 1923. The original publication of Cane was a foundational moment in the Harlem Renaissance literary movement. Cane’s reissue (after being out of print for many years) in 1967 was during the Second Renaissance of African American literature. Cane is a hybrid work that includes both poetry and prose.
“Storm Ending” appears in the second section of Cane. As a modern interpretation of a pastoral poem, it examines the themes of nature’s awe-inspiring power and cyclical quality.
Poet Biography
Jean Toomer was born Nathan Eugene Toomer in 1894 to Nathan Toomer and Nina Pinchback. After his father left, he was called Eugene Pinchback and grew up in the home of his grandfather, Pinckney B. S. Pinchback. P. B. S. Pinchback was the first Black governor of Louisiana and moved the family from New Orleans to Washington D.C. in 1890. Toomer lived briefly with his mother and her new husband in New York, but he ended up living with his Uncle Bismarck in Washington.
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