How Long to Read The Souls of Black Folk

How Long Does it Take to Read The Souls of Black Folk?

It takes the average reader 2 hours and 3 minutes to read The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B Du Bois

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IOf Our Spiritual Strivings O water, voice of my heart, crying in the sand, All night long crying with a mournful cry, As I lie and listen, and cannot understand The voice of my heart in my side or the voice of the sea, O water, crying for rest, is it I, is it I? All night long the water is crying to me. Unresting water, there shall never be rest Till the last moon droop and the last tide fail, And the fire of the end begin to burn in the west; And the heart shall be weary and wonder and cry like the sea, All life long crying without avail, As the water all night long is crying to me. ARTHUR SYMONS.Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked question: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through thedifficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter round it.They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously orcompassionately, and then, instead of saying directly, How does it feelto be a problem? they say, I know an excellent colored man in my town;or, I fought at Mechanicsville; or, Do not these Southern outrages makeyour blood boil? At these I smile, or am interested, or reduce theboiling to a simmer, as the occasion may require. To the realquestion, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.And yet, being a problem is a strange experience, --peculiar even forone who has never been anything else, save perhaps in babyhood and inEurope. It is in the early days of rollicking boyhood that therevelation first bursts upon one, all in a day, as it were. I rememberwell when the shadow swept across me. I was a little thing, away up inthe hills of New England, where the dark Housatonic winds betweenHoosac and Taghkanic to the sea. In a wee wooden schoolhouse, something put it into the boys' and girls' heads to buy gorgeousvisiting-cards--ten cents a package--and exchange. The exchange wasmerry, till one girl, a tall newcomer, refused my card, --refused itperemptorily, with a glance. Then it dawned upon me with a certainsuddenness that I was different from the others; or like, mayhap, inheart and life and longing, but shut out from their world by a vastveil. I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creepthrough; I held all beyond it in common contempt, and lived above it ina region of blue sky and great wandering shadows. That sky was bluestwhen I could beat my mates at examination-time, or beat them at afoot-race, or even beat their stringy heads. Alas, with the years allthis fine contempt began to fade; for the words I longed for, and alltheir dazzling opportunities, were theirs, not mine. But they shouldnot keep these prizes, I said; some, all, I would wrest from them.Just how I would do it I could never decide: by reading law, by healingthe sick, by telling the wonderful tales that swam in my head, --someway. With other black boys the strife was not so fiercely sunny: theiryouth shrunk into tasteless sycophancy, or into silent hatred of thepale world about them and mocking distrust of everything white; orwasted itself in a bitter cry, Why did God make me an outcast and astranger in mine own house? The shades of the prison-house closedround about us all: walls strait and stubborn to the whitest, butrelentlessly narrow, tall, and unscalable to sons of night who mustplod darkly on in resignation, or beat unavailing palms against thestone, or steadily, half hopelessly, watch the streak of blue above.

How long is The Souls of Black Folk?

The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B Du Bois is 119 pages long, and a total of 30,821 words.

This makes it 40% the length of the average book. It also has 38% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Souls of Black Folk Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 2 hours and 48 minutes to read The Souls of Black Folk aloud.

What Reading Level is The Souls of Black Folk?

The Souls of Black Folk is suitable for students ages 10 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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