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…showed last 75 words of 1204 total…the poems are about the work that needed to be done in the cane fields; some are about hope, hope that the black race would someday not have to work these fields. Toomer repeated his ideas from poem to poem and story to story to create a smooth flow from one to the next. It gives the reader the sense that this is one complete work and they are all linked by this common thread.