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America Gets Its Blackness Back To Me Summary

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McCrae’s “ America Gives Its Blackness Back To Me” is a clear and a standard example of the Petrarchan sonnet form. This is poem is Petrarchan sonnet form by the use of the fourteen lines and the flexible rhyme scheme. Just like in a traditional Petrarchan Sonnet form this poem has the sections broken up into an octave and a sestet. Also, another thing I noticed was how McCrea doesn’t use periods so it’s like one long statement that doesn’t officially end, and with some of lines there is an extra space between certain words like, “ I” and “ was” and “ “I” and “ should” just to give a few examples. McCrea use of structure of stanzas and enjambment really emphasizes the use of how he just wants to have his “Blackness” again and regaining back the power that took his “Blackness” away. …show more content…

You really feel a sense of hopelessness then in line eight of stanza two you see your first word that has some kind of hope to it which is the word lightness. Once you go to stanzas three and four you see a shift from once hopelessness to maybe there is hope in the mist of darkness. Also, another thing that the poet does is how in some lines there is an extra spacing between certain words, I think by him doing that he wants the reader to really focus on this words because if you notice the spaces are in between words that are simple and could be overlooked so by putting the extra spaces it will make the reader notice it more. For me the turn(volta) it’s happening in line eight line “As how its lightness after was a gift”, like a said before this line is the start of a different word tone compared to what was said before that line and also what is said after. This line does a good job at showing this next start of life like for example it says in line eleven “ I couldn’t while they watch me set it

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