Choices by Nikki Giovanni Choices, by Nikki Giovanni, expresses throughout the poem, a feeling of depression from subjugation. Giovanni shows how the character has a choice whether to accept her fate or choose to do something. In her stanzas, she has clearly chosen to accept someone else’s choice for her. While reading this, one must concur that she wants the reader to know, everyone has a choice although she has chosen not to be happy. As Edward Elric once said, “You’ve got two good legs. So get up and use them. You’re strong enough to make your own path.” Giovanni doesn’t do this as she accepts another’s will by saying, “If I can’t do/ what I want to do/ then my job is not/ do what I want/ To do” (1-5). Subjugation is seen though most
Nikki Giovanni created a poem named, “Kidnap Poem”. When reading a poem with a title such as this, it is easy to conclude that this piece of poetry may be about a terrible experience about the sensation of being kidnapped, or being held captive- or what it was like being held captive. People may not assume that the poem has a happy mood to it. The author uses lots of different writing techniques like; visual imagery, repetition, and hyperboles. Theses figurative languages all are used to make the poem more meaningful and allows it to connect together.
Do you feel that your movement is limited due to your appearance? Nikki Giovanna, author of the poem Choices, is an activist, writer, educator, and poet who originally published this poem in 1972 in a collection of poetry titled My House. Furthermore, Giovanna’s inspiration towards creating this poem is the Black Arts Movement, Civil Rights Movement, Equal Rights Amendment, and through her personal experiences as an African American female. This poem cornerstones the dilemma of the African American race.
(Nikki) . “Choices” a poem by Nikki Giovanni uses symbolism to show stuff from her past. She says “Since I can’t go where i need to go. . .” that was during her hard time with cancer. Giovanni wasn’t sure what life had thrown at her, but now she is stronger than she ever was before.
How many times a day do you make choices? Too many to count some would say, you made a choice just now to think about if you wanted to count how many times you made choices. Sometimes you have a choice and other times you do not. Most times you only get stuck with one choice and you have to deal with it. In addition, it might not be the choice or decision you would have hoped for but you go with it. A choice is making a decision between two or more possibilities. In the poem, Choices by Nikki Giovanni she writes a very short but meaningful poem about decisions and choices that she makes. Giovanni wrote this poem in the year of 1978; the year her father passes away. Throughout the poem Giovanni expresses her need to feel conform
Here she expresses, as she often does in her latter poetry, how lonely life is, especially a life of poetry. Giovanni says that writing poetry "is a lonely profession" (Reid 47). In the last poem of this vast selection, "But Since You Finally Asked," Giovanni provides a closure, clearly addressing her audience when saying,
In “Conte” by Marilyn Hacker, Cinderella shows the reader a glimpse of her life after the childhood tale ends, a less happier ending than the original story implies. She feels trapped in a constant state of misery and boredom in the royal palace. Without life experience guiding her, Cinderella is in a dilemma caused by her ignorance of the potential consequences of her actions. With the use of irony, structure, and diction, “Conte” shows how innocence and naïveté result in regrettable mistakes that create life experience.
Lorna Dee Cervantes' poem, “Poema para los Californios Muertos” (“Poem for the Dead Californios”), is a commentary on what happened to the original inhabitants of California when California was still Mexico, and an address to the speaker's dead ancestors. Utilizing a unique dynamic, consistently alternating between Spanish and English, Cervantes accurately represents the fear, hatred, and humility experienced by the “Californios” through rhythm, arrangement, tone, and most importantly, through use of language.
The poem “Choices” is a narrative by Yolanda Cornelia “Nikki” Giovanni, a poet, writer, commentator, activist, and educator. Nikki Giovanni was born on June 7, 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee though she was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her parents were Jones "Gus" Giovanni and Yolanda Cornelia, Sr. were both educators and they had two daughters, the eldest was Gary Ann and Yolanda Cornelia was the baby. Gary is responsible for the name Nikki because she started calling her that at a very young age. Both of Nikki Giovanni parents and her sister are deceased. Nikki has on son whose name is Thomas and a granddaughter. A 1968 graduate of Fisk University, in Nashville, Tennessee with a Bachelor of the Arts in History and she subsequently went to graduate school at Columbia University in New York and the University of Pennsylvania.
The poem “Kidnap Poem” by Nikki Giovanni is about how the poet is trying to grasp the reader into poetry and how it poetry could alter your life. She uses allusions to herself and the word “kidnap” to make the reader seem to be captured by her words. The aspect that her poem includes no stanzas and no punctuation could symbolically mean that she wants the readers to feel like they are being kidnapped; there are no stops or pauses, because when you are being kidnapped it all happens at once. To introduce the poem, Giovanni writes “ever been kidnapped by a poet.” From this line, the reader is able to take away that she wants to know if her audience has ever been taken away by words.
Giovanni brilliantly uses the literary devices of imagery, paralleled repetition and symbolism to depict a vivid journey of transformation, concluding with an exquisite moment of self-realization.
Richard Blanco is a Cuban- American poet who was given the oppurunity to write an inaugaration poem for Barack Obama's second swearing-in. He wrote a poem titled "One Today" that praised the good and unique things about the United States and also the everyday people who's daily routines help to make America the proud country that it is.
The title character of Mozart’s Don Giovanni embodies a figure that holds few ethical values, is wealthy, and endlessly seduces various women. With the use of his servant, Leporello, Don Giovanni is able to evade women who would like to marry him, such as Donna Elvira. Due to his treacherous actions, at the end of the opera, Don Giovanni is forced to decide between accepting his fate in hell, or renouncing his former lifestyle by ceasing his pursuit of women. Despite the dark ending, some scenes of the opera are playful, and are even charismatic at times. As the scenes shift in mood, such as from ominous to charismatic, the music composed for these scenes shift as well.
Her poem, “Choices”, relates a strong theme of optimism in one’s own abilities. Giovanni focuses on ideas such as acceptance, meaning people should believe in their own capabilities. She also illustrates that one must stop expecting everything to go as planned or how they feel is right. Another major topic exemplified is in regards one’s mentality and how sometimes we need to alter though process for our own benefits. In Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Choices” she demonstrates how one should have optimism and use that in regards to having acceptance for oneself, overlooking their own expectations, and changing their mindset when best
Nikki Giovanni, one of the most famous African American poet is widely known through her interesting style in her poetries. Giovanni’s innovative usage of poetic technique of allusion, wide range of imagery, excessive hyperbole and free verse conveys and emphasizes her style and persona as uncontrolled and unrestrained by rules.
Poetry is a reduced dialect that communicates complex emotions. To comprehend the numerous implications of a ballad, perusers must analyze its words and expressing from the points of view of beat, sound, pictures, clear importance, and suggested meaning. Perusers then need to sort out reactions to the verse into a consistent, point-by-point clarification. Poetry utilizes structures and traditions to propose differential translation to words, or to summon emotive reactions. Gadgets, for example, sound similarity, similar sounding word usage, likeness in sound and cadence are at times used to accomplish musical or incantatory impacts.