As a professor at Howard University, Sterling Brown's was a professor who specialized in African-American folklore; it shows in his poetry. Much of Sterling Brown's poetry loosely falls into the category of folk ballad, or explores other forms commonly associated with folk culture. More tellingly, folk culture comes to life in his writing. In "Odyssey of Big Boy," Big Boy dreams of being just like Casey Jones, Stackalee, and John Henry. Brown's deep knowledge of folk culture allows him to write aboit it with fluidity rather than stagnation.
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