Poem Africa Essay

Frost further points out that the stretch of woods being viewed is very rural. This is made possible by the reference to the location between the woods and frozen lake. In closing the final sentence of the second stanza Frost reiterates the fact that this occurs on “the darkest evening of the year” stating the darkness of the mood.

The structure of this poem is 3 stanzas with all the lines in the poem except Lines 9 and 15 in iambic tetrameter. In this metric pattern, a line has four pairs of unstressed and stressed syllables, for a total eight syllables. The internal structure of the poem is the narrator talking about the mask the African American people wear and the oppression that hurts them. Then the second stanza is sarcastic and negative towards the idea that it will ever change. Then the last stanza shows that they cling to Christ and the journey will be long.

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Nikki Giovanni's "Poem for Black Boys" is a poignant literary work that addresses several issues concerning the young black male in America and the conflicting views taken by members of the African-American community during the Civil Rights Movement with an inclination towards the peaceful movement perpetuated by the likes of Dr. Martin Luther king, Jr. and his non-violent contemporaries. Giovanni's use of allusion, imagery and the sardonic humor of the speaker blend effortlessly to denounce all of the negative connotation of the young African-American male and to sound the battle-cry to black male youths that while society-at-large may place them in a box, it is up to them to prove society wrong.

Prompt: Read the following two poems very carefully, noting that the second includes an allusion to the first. Then write a well-organized essay in which you discuss their similarities and differences. In your essay, be sure to consider both theme and style.

The third stanza it the biggest one in terms of number of lines. It repeats the previous line scheme abcc. The narrator describes the findings at the backyard. She notes that the mother disapproves of her preference. As a restult, the mother tells her that two kids have bad futrues because of the lifestyle at the backyard. The narrator seems to ignore this and wants to continue being with "those" people.

Reflections Within is a non-traditional stanzaic poem made up of five stanzas containing thirty-four lines that do not form a specific metrical pattern. Rather it is supported by its thematic structure. Each of the five stanzas vary in the amount of lines that each contain. The first stanza is a sestet containing six lines. The same can be observed of the second stanza. The third stanza contains eight lines or an octave. Stanzas four and five are oddly in that their number of lines which are five and nine.

In the first stanza, the poem consists of alternate rhyme to help the poem have a pleasant pattern and get the reader's attention to expect what will happen next. In the poem, Frances uses “Wretchedness” in line 2, to describe their situation being at a slave auction and show the emotion the slaves are feeling

     Another contrast is the vision of the woman before the bombing at the church and after the bombing at the church. At the beginning she is described in a whole stanza, as if a camera were slowly panning her entire figure. Her beautiful hair and white clothing make one think of a pure, angelic figure. Then, suddenly, in one line, her description is a new one, “Her eyes grew wet and wild.” It seems like the camera now just flashed to her face as it turns to look at it. The short verses long descriptions show the reader her state of being. The long lined description gives a feeling of sereneness, then the one-liner shows the reader her panic and shock

In the last stanza, the narrator witnesses the young "Harlot" (prostitute) cursing and reprimanding "Blasts" the infant's cries and "tears" at what could be the result of being fatherless. The soldiers' deaths leaving mothers widowed, turning the joyful occasion of marriage (also personified) into a depressing event “the Marriage hearse”. This stanza has a very different rhyme structure to the previous ones. It is half octameter and heptameter, making it slightly off beat. Lines thirteen and sixteen are slower (octameter), while lines thirteen and sixteen (heptameter) have a rapid, excited tone.

Have you ever wondered how it would feel to be considered inferior because of your race? The people of South Africa had to endure racial inferiority during the era of apartheid. The apartheid laws the government of South Africa made led to an unequal lifestyle for the blacks and produced opposition.

These strong, and independent African women authors use insightful and educational language, which invites the western world to be a part of their world through the power of literature. One of the

If we analyse the legends of the Amazons told in Chapter 2 and considering the fact that Africans are attached to their glorious past, we can put forward that the inner-power in woman are strongly attached to these values which have been transmitted from generations to generations.

Elisabeth says then there will never be any solution to the problem of novel in Africa if the Africans wanted a ‘living voice’. The main problem faced by them was because the African writers unlike the French and the English were not acting as writers but were actually behaving like interpreters of their exotic cultures and that the root of their problem was ‘ Having to perform your Africanness at the same time as you write.’

Crying is described in both poems as “‘weep!” This cry forms an end rhyme and an internal rhyme in Innocence–the cohesion of sounds lessen the emotional impact of the cry. Whereas, in Experience, “‘weep” does not rhyme with anything, and