The term “Runagate” likely comes from the word renegade, which means

The lack of punctuation in lines 1–20 suggests the Runagate’s

In the phrase “darkness thicketed with shapes of terror” (line 2), the poet most likely chose the word thicketed to suggest

Which line suggests a slave saying good-bye before running away?

The speaker who says “my Pompey” (line 21) and “my Anna” (line 23) is a

The sentence “They’ll . . . turn into scorpions when you try to catch them” (lines 27–29) means that fugitive slaves

Describing Harriet Tubman as “woman of the earth, whipscarred” (line 39) conveys that she is a

The phrase “bladed air” (line 46) most likely means that the

Harriet Tubman is “In league with Garrison Alcott Emerson / Garrett Douglass Thoreau John Brown” (lines 55–56) because they are all

The phrases “movering movering, / over trestles of dew, through caves of the wish” (lines 67–68) suggest that the Underground Railroad runs on

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