What Is The White Kid

Shel Silverstein used key meaning to make this poem come to life. A metaphor used in this poem is “ red, black, or orange, yellow or white, we all look the same when we turn off the light”. This shows us that no matter what color we are when the lights turn off we are all humans and look the same without color defining us. Simile used in this poem is “small as a peanut” and also “big as a giant”. Size doesn't define us as people, now a days we are profiled not only for the color of our skin but also how we are shaped. Shel Silverstein poem tells us that there is no difference we are all

Secondly, the speaker of the poem can be described as underprivileged, and this is shown throughout the entire poem. For example, line 1 of the poem it states "some are teethed on a silver spoon” and line 5 it states "some are swaddled in silk and down”. This shows that the speaker is not the same as the person who is teethed on a silver spoon or cared for very carefully. This inclusion also shows that the speaker was not born into a wealthy family and so the speaker must fight for what they need pertaining to themselves and the family.

I’m a Fool To Love You by Cornelius Eady has an underlining blues tone to it. The main idea of this poem is to express the author's mother's view on love. I think when it comes to love, everyone can relate to the blues aspects of it. Eady epitomizes these “blues” undertones through figurative language, illustrating the ideal image of what these forms of blues actually are. This poem is about the choices his mom and other women sometimes make when he mentions ''a strange cruel gentlemen''.

This imagery describes how happy a young African American boy is to be in the city of Baltimore. Also, the implication of rhyme from the words glee and me set off the tone as happy. However, when he encounters a white boy that sticks his tongue out and calls him a ¨Nigger¨, the tone of Incident changes to a gloomy feeling. By the last stanza, the African American boy claims, ¨Of all the things that happened there / Thatś all that I remember¨ (Cullen 11-12). The author's message really shines through when reading the last lines of the poem. When starting off with a pleasant day in Baltimore, the discriminatory comment and look given by the arrogant white boy really gave the narrator a sour taste of the city.

This allows readers to have a more open mindset when reading and see many different views. Views are normally influenced by opinion or foresight and by attempting to leave behind opinions readers can have a broader understanding. The idea of racism is demonstrated through a contradiction of races, “The black boy and the white” (Cullen 2). This exemplifies a contradiction of races, black to white. Racism plays a key role in this situation because if it was not present the two boys would go unnoticed and race would be ignored. In this time period whites were viewed as the superior race. Whites were more prominent in society and were held to a higher standard. Folk of the African American race were on the rise during the Harlem Renaissance and were becoming more involved in society. However, prejudice was extremely present in society. Blacks were looked at as less of a person than whites and held lesser positions. Other writers pick up on the contrast in characters,“... local townspeople react to a friendship between two boys; one black, the other white”(Turner 230). This is essential as it is easily distinguished that one is black and one boy is white. If it was not for prejudice, little would be thought about two young boys being together. The contradiction of races opens new opinions and room for criticism. Another example of contradiction is employed in the poem, “The

In Hughes’ poem, “Mother to son,” a mother explains to her son how her life was never easy. She tells her son that even though she has come across many hardships, she kept on pushing. The mother advises her son to never turn back, no matter how hard the obstacle is to overcome because she hasn’t given up in her old age. This poem is a free verse written in the vernacular. “The Little Black Boy” by William Blake is about a black child telling the story of how he began to find himself and know God. He explains how his skin is black and his soul is white as that of an English child. His mother introduces him to God who lives in the East and gives light and life to all creation, and comfort and joy to men. The mother in this poem is a loving character who wants the best for her child. The little black boy passes on

This story is about how two brothers from the Watts cross over the line of segregation that separates them from an area that is all-whites and all-american place and how they are off to the store to get groceries and when they try to come back they get beat up buy 5 teenagers on a bike. I think his purpose for writing this is to show that no matter where you are there will always be a place that bases everything off the race. The way that he uses connotation, syntax and imagery is to show the passion between how dependent

Another example in the poem of the similarities and differences between races is a when the author talks about the finances of Mister Samuel and Sam. ‘Mister Samuel deal wid high finance, Sam deal in a two-bit game; Mister Samuel crashes, Sam goes broke, But deys busted jes’ de same’ (Brown, 220) compares how the finances are much lower of the black man compared to the white man. This stanza continues by providing the similarities between the men. It discusses how both the white man and the black man experience financial downfall as a result.

Race plays a big part in this poem. He speaks on Harlem and its culture and this environment but also about mutual interest with people

What i feel like he mean by the poem is, the fact that h is from Winsto-Salem and go’s to a all white school called Harlem. Them things doesn't make him no different then the next person, or the fact that he is the only black man in his class. He want the teacher to see him for him no matter the color, age, or his personality. And so he say “ does it make his paper any different from yours

This example shows racial interaction by Countee Cullen writing about how it was not normal that the blacks and the whites could even be associated with each other in this time period; but, she still had hope that things will change. The tone for the poem “Incident” changes throughout the poem; first it is joyful, then towards the end, it becomes sad. An example of the turning point of these two tones is “...but he poked out [h]is tongue, and called me, 'Nigger.'” (Cullen 8). When the little white boy called the speaker this, he automatically because sad. This shows racial interaction because the little white boy ruined how the speaker viewed Baltimore. This quote represents the theme because before this, the speaker was happy; but after this, the speaker grew sad. Both poems tones may be different but they still compare because they relate to racial interaction.

In the poem, "On the Subway," we understand that two different boys sit across each other on the subway. One being white, and the other being black. Both of the individuals differ in many ways, but come together on the ride in the train. Even though the black boy is more dominant, the experience for the white boy was surprising due to the fact that he was white. The black boy was described as a mean delinquent.

Feeling the urge to have equal rights with every race in the world. In contrast, they hated slavery; felt racial prejudice against the world; wanted to seek revenge for their own freedom. In this poem he uses an abundance of rhyme. Which means, a sound between words or at the end

In the poem, the white boy is sitting next to a colored boy in a subway seat. As he is sitting next to the colored kid, the white boy realizes that he is much better dressed than him; therefore, he begins criticizing him.the white boy describes the big feet and weird clothing possesed by the colored boy and feels I'm disgust. He says that the black kid had a casual look of a muggler. Here the boy

    At first, the narrator cannot grasp that his grandfather was fighting against oppression in his work he was compliant to white men. But as he progresses as a student the denials of the system become more clear it is not clear if white men wish for him to advance or not. The narrator’s  worldview has become more