A Midnight Woman to the Bobby Summary
Claude McKay

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"A Midnight Woman to the Bobby" is an example of author Claude McKay's innovations in dialect poetry. McKay was a Jamaican-American writer, part of the social and cultural movement of the 1920s known as the Harlem Renaissance. His work used dialect, particularly the everyday language of Jamaica, to conjure the sounds and characters of everyday life. This poem, in which a knowledgeable prostitute confronts a naive young police officer, is a key example of that style. It was published in Songs of Jamaica in 1912, his first published book.

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