"The Death Song"

The poem that I read was "The Death Song" by Paul Laurence Dunbar. The poem talked about death in different way than the poems that I have already familiarized myself with in the past. There was a different kind of diction with a certain colloquial that I believe to be of descendant from the South. "Lay me down beneaf de willers in de grass," is the first line of the poem. The way that beneath is spelled shows that the author is trying to get this certain colloquial message across. the message possibly deals with that of the an African- American living in the south or one that is a slave and is not given the proper education to be able to work on their grammar.