Poem Essay

The final stanza revolves around the nettles retorting to the father’s attacks. In the first line, the father is shown to give the nettles a funeral. This shows the father ending the troubles caused by the nettles. With effective choice of words, the poet describes how the ’sun’ and ‘rain’, representative of nature and its power, finally help the nettles grow. The word ‘recruits’ shows the enemy army was returning and regrouping. Furthermore, the word ‘tall’ depicts the nettles being stronger and healthier than before and their readiness for the battle. The final line states that the son would be hurt by the nettles soon and again. While problems won’t wane with time, despite all of the father’s efforts, the son will have to find a way to learn to adapt to the renewed struggles in his life.

A large portion of this poem is comparing the difference between black and white. In the poem it practically says “what if all the black is now white, and all the white is now black?”, then goes on to give some examples like “Black Presidents,

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.

In actuality, the poem can be seen by Negros as a way to criticize the white plantation owner and in fact plant the seeds of rebellion.

The angry and aggressive tone displays the attitudes and aggression towards the tenant for being African American. The tenant begs for repairs and his denied by his cruel landlord. The hostility of the poem can be seen in “You ain’t gonna be able to say a word / If I land my fist on you” as the tenant threatens the landlord for not repairing the home(19-20). The landlord is aggressive as well; for instance when he calls the police he says “He’s [the tenant] trying to ruin the government / And overturn the land,” which shows the landlord’s distaste for the tenant (23-14). The excerpt displays the landlord’s thinking that African Americans are ruining the United States and shouldn’t even be part of the

The overall tone of the poem is the mother giving advice to her son from her perspective. The author also uses dialect of the mother to establish the setting and time period. The entire poem is a metaphor for how hard life has been for the mother and advice she has for her son to persevere through life’s climb as an African American. After anyone reads this poem, they can feel the mother’s plea to the son to keep pushing through hardships, dangers, or challenges in life. A reader may even fell as if the mother is talking to them. All poems will somehow relate differently to everyone’s lives, one way or

The �redness� symbolized life because red is associated with life. The next usage of symbolism was in the seventh line. �The spikes of the crocus� referred to a flower called the crocus. The crocus was often the first of the spring flowers to bloom so it is a symbol of the return or rebirth of life in spring. �The spikes� (of the crocus) represent the pains of rebirth. This would be especially fitting since the line before said �The sun is hot on my neck as I observe�. With both lines combined, this could be interpreted as the poet observing the pains of life. Later in the poem, in line eleven, �under ground are the brains of men� symbolizes the downfall of human knowledge since the brain is associated with intelligence and underground can be taken literally as �lower that dirt�. Hence, this can be translated into the statement: �Not only is man�s intelligence lower than dirt�. The poet, in my opinion, is stating that today, men are no longer knowledgeable. And then the line after that, the twelfth line, �Eaten by maggots.� further emphasizes this. Finally, at the end of the poem in lines thirteen to

The lines follow a rhyme pattern, where in each consecutive pair of lines has their ending thyming with each other. Stange Fruit describes the scene of a lynching of a Black American and its resemblance to a fruit hanging from a tree. The bodies were described as “strange fruits”. There are a few methafors in the song; trees are symbol of life. Meeropol’s tree has “blood on the leaves and blood at the root”, showing that both recent and older generations of African Americans have experienced the same sort of violent persecution.

The Current U.S foreign policy in the Middle East has a goal to advance peace, security, and prosperity in the Middle East. The Current foreign Policy is also supposed to defeat Al-Qa’ida and its extremist affiliates in Afghanistan and Pakistan. The United States Foreign policy protects the U.S citizens by governing international relations, but the current U.S. foreign policy undermines our national security in the Middle East, through drone strikes, the war in Afghanistan, and using a “hands-off” approach in Syria which has created the U.S. to becoming a target to Middle Eastern Countries.

Back in that time there was a lot of racial discrimination. He is telling them they are fighting to survive not to start something they are fighting for their death to be something, so in their death maybe the enemy honors him. In this time African American are expressing their self’s by writing poems or creating music. He also wrote “Enslaved” this poem shows how much he suffer with his race. He was denied a lot of stuff. How his wasn’t able to be good he was rejected by a lot of people neighbors, and even his nation. “Harlem Shadows” he expresses how he sees other people do when they see black people. How people would see him when he would pass by. All the negativity white people would see on black people. How American society was so negative how white people were the sun and black people were the

A similarity noticed in both poems is the significance of the tree expressed through the use of symbolism. As viewed in both texts, the tree acts a representation of death, despair, and dehumanisation in the eyes of African Americans whose rights were unjustly stripped of themselves. Although in both texts the tree acts as a symbol of death, a difference that sets Strange Fruit apart from The Hanging Tree is how writer Meeropol make use of the metaphor of the tree. This further conveys his message across to the audience about the destructive force of racism on individuals. Meeropol describes the trees as splattered with blood who bear the fruit of racial terrorism; the bodies of dead African Americans.

The poem being analyzed is entitled, “I Go Back to May 1973” by Sharon Olds. In the beginning of the poem, the image of innocence is lost but as the reader goes deeper into the heart and core of the text, the tone rapidly spirals into violence as well as resentment.

Then, Williams finds a way to change the depressing mood of his poem by using specific words to convey feelings of hope. He does this in his fourth stanza with the lines: “Lifeless in appearance, sluggish/dazed spring approaches” (L14-15). Williams is saying that the plants, the trees, and the vines only appear to be dead, but they are not. Once again imagery is being used here. Also, what is going to save this otherwise seemingly desolate land is the approaching spring; “sluggish” and “dazed” as it may be, it is imminent – life is forthcoming. Williams also proffers up more hope with the lines: “One by one objects are defined/rooted, they/grip down and begin to awaken” (L22,26-27).

“MR HERO” Crashing into the room, hair dishevelled and a fearing look in her eyes, she catches the hem of her skirt on the door handle, tumbling to the floor with a crack. “Please help us” snotty tears mixes with her bloodied face as she looks at the languid figure rocking in the shadows.

This sense of duality within this poem is the purpose behind the prose. This is representative of the duality that many people of color felt during this time period.