By: Melanie D, Katie S, Sarah M, Logan
F, and Samiha A.
So long,
So far away
Is Africa.
Not even memories alive
Save those that history book create,
Save those that songs
Beat back into blood-Beat out of blood with words sad-sung
In stranger un-Negro tongue-So long,
So far away
Is Africa.
Subdued and time-lost
Are the drums--and yet
Through some vast mist of race
There comes this song
I do not understand.
This song of atavistic land,
Of bitter yearnings lost
Without a place-So long,
So far away
Is Africa’s
Dark face.
Afro-American Fragment
Theme: Lost,
confused, Atavism
(reflecting back on
Africa)
 Mood: Depressed,
homesick, alone
 Tone: Isolation from
his culture

Jack London’s Literature
Theme: Lost in the
world (the
wild/Klondike),
Atavism (instincts)
 Mood: Homesick
(Buck missing his
home in California
and White Fang
missing the wild)
 Tone: Ominous,
isolation from his
culture ( not used to
the wild)

Afro-American Fragment
Personification:
“Africa’s dark face”,
“not even memories
alive”
 Metaphors: “beat
back into the blood”,
“ beat out of blood
with words sad-sung”

Jack London’s Literature
Metaphors: “Batard
was a devil”
 Personification:
“Camp must be
broken”

Afro-American Fragment
Alliteration: “Beat
back into the blood”,
“Sad-sung” , “those
that”
 Repetition: “So long,
so far away is Africa”
(repeated in the
poem)

Jack London’s Literature
Alliteration: “One of
the grooms ran to the
rescue”, “Matt
shrugged his
shoulders”
 Repetition: “a wall”
(grey cub repeats
this, referring to the
“wall of bright light”)

Afro-American Fragment
“Dark face”
 “So long, so far away
is Africa”
 “of bitter yearnings
lost without a space”

Jack London’s Literature
“The sharp nudge of
his mother’s paw”
 “Already the canoes
were departing, and
disappearing into the
river”
 “…and that his clubhand had been ripped
wide open by White
Fang’s teeth”

Afro-American Fragment
“Save those that
history books create”
 “So long, so far away,
is Africa”
 “This song of Atavistic
land”

Jack London’s Literature
“Buck’s first day on
the Dyea beach was a
nightmare.”
 “He was carnivorous
animal. He came from
a breed of meatkillers and meateaters.”
