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A Study Guide for Robert Hayden's "The Whipping," 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 Robert Hayden's "The Whipping" - Gale
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The Whipping
Robert Hayden
1962
Introduction
The Whipping
is a poem by American poet Robert Hayden describing an incident in which a small boy is beaten with a stick by an old woman, who is presumably the boy's mother or grandmother. The incident is observed by the speaker in his own neighborhood, and the sight of the boy triggers his own difficult memories of having been subjected to corporal punishment by a parent when he was a child. The poem, which is in part autobiographical, is notable not only for the way it evokes the misery and fear associated with corporal punishment but also for its reflective conclusion about why such methods of punishment are employed generation after generation. The Whipping
was first published in Hayden's poetry collection A Ballad of Remembrance in 1962 and was reprinted in his Selected Poems in 1966 and Collected Poems in 1985. The poem can also be found in the 1997 collections I Am the Darker Brother: An Anthology of Modern Poems by African Americans, edited by Arnold Adoff, and Poetry after Lunch: Poems to Read Aloud, edited by Joyce A. Carroll and Edward E. Wilson.
Author Biography
Hayden was born as Asa Bundy Sheffey on August 4, 1913, in Detroit, Michigan, to Ruth Finn and Asa Sheffey, an impoverished couple who soon separated and moved away. Their child was left with neighbors, William and Sue Ellen Hayden. The Haydens raised Asa as their own son, renaming him Robert Earl Hayden, although they never formally adopted him, a fact that Hayden did not discover until 1953, when he applied for a passport. Growing up with extreme nearsightedness meant that he did not participate in school sports; instead, he took to reading,
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