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Speech Of The Young Poem Analysis

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“Even if you are not ready for the day it cannot always be night” this line from the poem had genuinely stuck out to me. I felt that the speaker was trying to tell readers that even if your not ready to move on from something unfortunate, you can't stay in that place forever. Life goes on through tough times, but there is always a way to jump around it and move on. In the poem Gwendolyn Brooks explains how there will be tough parts in life and how it is sometimes easier not to face your problems but you have to. The poem is also about how not everything is about winning in the end, but about enjoying the present, and to look at the positive side of things. I enjoy the poem because in “Speech of the Young” there is a great meaning behind the poem. In the first stanza of “Speech of the Young” There is symbolism in line 8 "For that is the hard home-run." The author uses a home run to symbolize how hard it was to do something. The lines "say to the down-keepers, the sun slappers, the self soilers, the harmony-hushers," are referring to people who don't feel good about themselves or make others feel bad. I think that the term “harmony hushers” is great way to describe someone who is down on others, because once everything is in harmony breaking it would cause others to feel …show more content…

The poem has a lot of meaning behind it, the poem uses alliteration throughout. I feel that I can relate the speaker of the poem because the speaker talks about how life isn't easy but there is always a better way. The way the author uses the different meaning throughout is one reason why I enjoy the poem. My favorite line in the poem in “Even if you are not ready for the day it cannot always be night” because behind the line is very meaningful, because even if your not ready to move on from something that happened, you cannot stay in that place

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