Panther Power Analysis

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Analysis: Panther Power by Tupac Shakur In the song Panther Power by Tupac Shakur, Tupac tries to describe the American dream, what it means to him, what promises the government gave him and at the end, what he ended up with. Already in the beginning of the poem the atmosphere is very tense. In the first line Tupac Shakur starts saying “As real as it seems the American dream, ain´t nothing but another calculated scheme”. He describes how the white people locked the black people up and how the white people stole their names, their future, their freedom, education, equality all that they were promised from the beginning. He tells that the white people made them very dangerous, and the reason could be that they couldn’t get a job or an education. “So now I’m sitting here mad because I’m unemployed, but the government’s glad cause they enjoy”. This quote…show more content…
It works through patterning like repetition of sounds and words. Tupac Shakur uses a lot of poetic devices to give the poem its characteristic form and message. It includes rhythm, rhyme, stanzas, choice of words, imagery, figures of speech, sound patterns, contrasts and so on. The rhythm comes when he uses rhyme in the ending and every second stanza rhymes. He uses swear words to emphasize the situation and the fact that he is really mad and displeased with the government. He uses a lot of imagery to evoke special emotional reactions in the reader. He did not use simile in this song, but he uses personification like “lady liberty is a hypocrite”. The Statue of Liberty is a symbol of freedom, but she is a hypocrite because everyone was not free like promised. They promised that everyone included the Afro Americans should be free. When he talks about The Statue of Liberty he is using personification, because he is giving some human characteristics to something non-human like the Statue of Liberty. He writes that she lied to him and promised him freedom, equality, but gave him nothing but
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