Analysis Of Movement Song By Audre Lorde

Hardy initially uses similes to illustrate the bleak landscape, referring to the “sun [as] white” and leaves as “grey”, to emphasise his sorrowful opinion of love. Specific diction of bleak words strongly communicates his message of love being hopeless and sorrowful. He also uses personification of “starving sod”, to allude that the earth is frozen and desiring nutrients which it lacks. This creates an undesirable setting and mood of despair and sorrow expressing how he perceives love. In contrast, Browning orientates an inviting, cheerful setting through the use of similes. The scene is vibrant with “little waves that leap” and “warm sea-scented beach[es]”, allowing the reader to perceive it as joyful. This illustrates how he regards love as an uplifting experience, which brings people together. He structures his poem with no stanzas, allowing for the reader to follow the radiant journey of love. In contrast, Hardy includes stanzas allowing him to express his message though new topics. They consist of the bleak setting, his former partners eyes, her bitter smile and his message of how all love disappoints. He includes an enclosed rhyme scheme, presenting the entrapment of love, expressing no freedom and joy in relationships. In opposition, Browning uses anaphora of “and” to express how the speaker’s mind is not in the moment, looking ahead to the future where they reunite with their lover. It is evident that Hardy conveys his message of love as sorrowful and full of despair, in contrast Browning message reveals love as gracious and

Lucille Clifton's poem "Move" deals specifically with an incident that occurred in Philadelphia on May 13, 1985. On that date, Mayor Wilson Goode, Philadelphia's first African American mayor, authorized the use of lethal force against fellow African Americans living at 6221 Osage Avenue. In her introduction to the poem, Clifton says that there had been complaints from neighbors, who were also African American, concerning the "Afrocentric back-to-nature" group that called itself "Move" and had its headquarters at this address (35). The members of this group wore their hair in dreadlocks and they all used their surname of "Africa." Clifton's poem suggests that it was these differences that cost the lives of eleven people, including

Specifically, she describes the irony behind the Fourth of July. In the beginning of the story, there was a happy and excited tone. As the story continues, the tone becomes angry. She was beginning to feel the injustice that she and her family faced during the trip.  The angry tone continues after she realizes the prejudice that she will continue to face while growing up. Then, at the end of the story, Lorde and her family go to the ice cream parlor. Once they realized the cause of the waitress’s strange behavior, the family became “straight-backed and indignant, one by one, her and her family got down from the counter stools and turned around and marched out of the store, quiet and outraged,” (16) and returned to their hotel. This shows the shame that she felt in this moment, but also the family’s lack of desire to cause a scene. During this time period, many black chose to stand up for their rights and retaliate against the injustice they face, but Lorde’s family rather stay quiet and respect the white people. By the end of the story, the tone changed to sympathetic tone. The reader could sympathize with Lorde on an inscrutable and piteous level because one could feel where the family was coming from. The reader was able to feel their pain of being shamed because of their skin

The poem, “Hanging Fire,” by Audre Lorde was a very relatable and enjoying poem to read.

The song "U.N.I.T.Y." by Queen Latifah, released in 1994, is a hip-hop song with a theme about the harassment, domestic violence and sexist slurs against women, black woman to be specific. Should “U.N.I.T.Y” be considered literature, specifically is it a poem? I think that every song, no matter what the genre is free verse poetry. However, this artist and song are important in the hip-hop as literature genre movement because of both the artist’s credibility and the message that she is delivering.

The third stanza goes on to define the pain, only now in more emotional terms, such as "It hurts to thwart the reflexes / of grab, of clutch" (14-15), as well as the pain of continuously having to say good bye, each perhaps as if for the last time: "to love and let / go again and again" (15-16). These lines reinforce the impression that the first stanza's definition of "to love differently" is in fact an anti-freedom or state of emotional anarchy, now using words like "pester" to describe any separation; the poet is compelled "to remember / the lover who is not in the bed" (16), hinting at obsessive tendencies as being possible components of the relationship. We also learn that she believes love requires work, which she cannot do without her partner's assistance, and that this lack of cooperation frustrates her. She believes this neglected effort is the other party's fault by his failure to do his fair share, thereby leaving her own efforts ineffective, the whole of it characterized as an effort "that gutters like a candle in a cave / without air" (19-20). Her demands of this work are quite broad, encompassing being "conscious, conscientious and concrete" in her efforts and optimistically calling this work "constructive" (20-21) before ending the stanza.

I chose to perform this poem because I can personally relate to it, the character in the poem and to the author herself. I would consider myself as a feminist just like Andre Lorde; also I would consider myself Anti-racism and anti-homophobic. Growing up I was surrounding by people who believed that women should stay home, and cook and clean, their job was to just take care of the kids, not only that but my religion was Islamic, my cousins belief and parents that women shouldn’t have a career, they

In this story, Carolina and Savvie are sisters that can't be apart from each other. “I will Follow you” by Roxane Gay follows a story about these two girls that have lived a very difficult life and all they have is each other, they keep thinking back and forth about their very traumatic past as little as ten and eleven years old. Savvie and Carolina were kidnapped and molested, after six weeks of them being kidnapped by this perpetrator, they try to maintain a normal life but they keep getting flashbacks. When the perpetrator (Mr.Peter) returns to their lives he sends a letter from prison to the girls and asks them for forgiveness. These girls are put to the hardest test, will they let Mr.Peter still take advantage of them after they are

As a young lady, Ayn’s father oft told her about why it is so crucial for one to have self, and to be narcissistic, rather than to be selfless. Day after day he would continually remind her “We are not born to do what other people want us to do” (In Her Own Words). These words profoundly affect, not only Ayn’s writing, but her behavior as well. Consequently, Ayn is one of the most self-optimistic personage, one will ever behold. In one interview she even spoke, “I was the most brilliant” (In Her Own Words); nonetheless, she knew of her grandeur and was not reluctant to declare it. Although one generally portrays being egotistic as a negative element, it is actually the key to obtaining complete ecstasy. Thereby, Ayn concluded to address individualism, versus collectivism, in a manner that was both compelling, yet transparent to the reader; thus, creating the character “Equality 7-2521”. Today’s society expects one to relinquish to what humanity covets of him or her. More times than not, this is due to one’s lack of knowledge on collectivism, rather than the fact he or she prefers it over individualism. Even those who genuinely favor communism, do not grasp how precarious, and fatal it is; nevertheless, Ayn wrote Anthem, to such an extreme, in an attempt to augment awareness, as it must become a public interest. Individuals of

In presenting herself as a child on the verge of adulthood, Lorde indicated to the reader that the things she learned at this time would be pivotal and important for the rest of her life. For example, at the beginning of her essay, Lorde wrote that her trip to Washington D.C. was “on the edge of the summer when I was supposed to stop being a child” (221). In this way, Lorde’s trip to the nation’s capital and her experiences of discrimination there provided an intellectual

It was the first time Lorde was confronted with racism and her family’s reaction to it. They had to take a train to go to New York City and when it was time to eat, they were not allowed to enter the dining area so they had to eat in their seats. Her mother told her that it is better to eat home cooked food anyway. Audre Lorde did not question her mother since she knew her mother was right. Though her parents made the incident look okay, it deeply bothered Lorde. There was another incident when they arrived to D.C from New York City; when Audre’s family decided to get some ice cream treats from a drugstore, they were told to order their food and eat it outside because they were blacks. Her parents ignore the comment and left. Lorde was outrages by their reaction. She knew what was going on but she was not allowed to acknowledge this racism. She saw that her family was just as upset but they chose to ignore it and walk away, hoping for the racism to go away. These incidents were carved inside Lorde while growing up. It was a hard journey for her until she found a way to deal with it.

Audre Lorde article is about her near death experience to dying with breast cancer and how she was force to face her own mortality. During her journey with breast cancer surgery she discovered her voice, and during that time she reflexed and regretted all the times that she had remained silent. She stated that after finding her voice she was able to speak to other women and find strength and clarity of her own thoughts. Additionally, she found enough strength in her to fight like a warrior, in a way she also found her warrior poet’s voice.

Audre Lorde once said, “I am not free while any woman is unfree, even when her shackles are very different than my own.” These “shackles” Lorde referred to are the almost inescapable gender constructs seen across society. The injustice women face affects all layers of their lives and freedom. In her novel, Sandra Cisneros, poignantly depicts the oppression women face by demonstrating their limited future opportunities, forced dependency on men, and aggressive sexualization from a young age.

“They killed my son in cold blood,” lamented Eloise Armstead. Her husband, Add Armstead, was traveling to work with a companion on Saturday evening in the early 1970s. Thomas Shea and Walter Scott, responding to a call about a cabby that was robbed earlier that day, used this opportunity to rid the world of the wicked and gain a victory for the righteous. Walking along New York Blvd. in South Jamaica, Queens, Shea and his partner pulled alongside the two. Armstead says, as he recalls the incident, “We were walking, not saying anything to each other, and this car pulls up, and this white fella opens the door with a gun.” To him and his companion it looked like they were going to be robbed, so they ran. As the gunshots

Audre Lorde’s poem, Coal, explores the idea of repression and the freedom of speech. On first reading of the text, the poem seems to be built around an idea of anger towards repressing one’s individual thoughts and not voicing personal opinion. However, through a deconstructive reading, there are inconsistencies within the text’s language that question whether the speaker is referring to the forceful repression of spoken words or other motifs like femininity, power and self worth within an individual’s voice. By examining the verbal, textual, and linguistic stages of Coal, one can see the contradictions, discontinuities, and unreliability in relation to one another within the poem.