As seen in many poems wrote during the Black Art Movement, Armiri Baraka directly states his audience in lines “Let Black people understand/that they are the lovers and the sons/of warriors and sons/of warriors” While Claude McKay notes “If we must die—let it not be like hogs/Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,/While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,” McKay 's indirectly indicates that his audience are African Americans. Those lines 1-3 refers to the way African Americans were hunted after by their white counter parts during slavery. The poems also share a common use of words that in many ways can be viewed as a protest. Each poem makes you feel like you are in a setting with a black leader who is inspiring you with a speech to take action. For example, Claude McKay’s poem states “If we must die, O let us nobly die/So that our precious blood may not be shed in vain” ( 5-7, “If We Must Die”) .Likewise Armiri Baraka writes “Let Black people understand/that they are the lovers and the sons /of warriors and sons/of warriors” The authors are urging their black audience to stand up for themselves.
Black People in the US Army In the short story ,,The Homecoming’’ by Frank Yerby the Protagonist Willie, a highly decorated soldier, gets back home. He served in the Second World War and has experienced a lot of horrible things. Willie has seen how people, no matter what skin colour they had, were treated equally. He can’t stand the unfair situation in the southern states for black people and now he want to leave. Because of this story I asked myself some questions.
Should these dark and light images only be looked at in the context of how race plays into the equation? “Facing It,” by Yusef Komunyakaa, an African-American and Vietnam combat Veteran, is a reflection on the arduous undertaking of his first visit the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington DC to confront the ghosts of his past. It’s obvious that Komunyakaa is creating complexity by carefully selecting words such as, “black, night, morning, and white” that pertain to the light and dark elements of war. Consequently, these words also play into his African-American heritage as well. Komunyakaa places emphasis on his ethnicity in the first two lines of the poem: "My black face fades, hiding inside the black granite" (1-2).
At first he is not aware that this is the person who took his father’s life until the Colonel starts telling a story about how he gained the respect of the colored people and how in south states colored people are not the same as white people. Tom encounters different types of feeling while hearing their conversation regarding how his father was killed. During this time he thinks about all his options and the consequences if he decides to take the Colonel life. The Idea of the author on this story is how back in the day Negro people had no voice and
Pitts uses pathos to evoke sympathy multiple times from his audience. In his article he describes the scene as “ we saw proud towers disintegrate as sand castles, mangled bodies pulled from rubble, people with tear-streaked faces holding up photos of missing loved ones. Pitts uses this imagery to make his audience remember 9/11 and the pain of all the families. Pitts used pathos later in the article, this time to evoke another type of emotion; this time remorse. In the article Pitts writes ”But the events of that baby’s birth day showed that others do not see the fine distinctions into which we put so much stock.
This is an effective way of showing us the effect of war because it shows just how many people died at war fighting in France on European battlegrounds. Next we see a man who we see being followed by his family. This man is looking for the grave of Captain Miller. This man is the man who saved Private Ryan. The scene ends with endless pictures of graves and then the camera zooms in on the man’s eyes.
To start, we begin at the first scene of the movie, from the transition of the past to present. The film started with a frame shot of a waving American flag which gave the audience an idea that it has something to do with patriotism for America. After that, a lonely moody music fades in slowly while starting to show an elderly man walking to the American military graveyard showing that he was a soldier who fought for his country in the 2nd world war. The angles used in the shots were excellent, the endless rows and columns of graveyard showed that many soldiers died at that war. The desaturated color of the film showed that it wasn't a happy story that happened in his past.
Speech – Good Morning students and teachers today I will be talking about some Wilfred Owen Poems that conveyed the experiences of wars. The two poems that will be discussed are “Dulce Et Decrorum Est” and “Anthem for Doomed Youth”. Many of his poems show that wars are bad and it is not needed. Wilfred Owen was born on the 18th march 1893 and died on 4 November 1918, he is best known as one of the most powerful war poets, who detailed the reality and horrors of the First World War. Owen's first experience of the war was in hospitals treating the wounded soldiers.
Monica Gaber English 102 Poetry Analyst “Funeral Blues” by W.H. Auden W.H.Auden’s focuses on death as an irreversible phenomenon though people die, this analysis of "Funeral Blues" that the relationships with those loved one don't. Auden’s “Funeral Blues” is an elegy, a poem of mourning, in this case for a recently deceased friend. Its title has multiple meanings. It alludes perhaps to the music played at New Orleans funerals, it reflects the “blues” that the speaker himself is experiencing over this sudden and painful loss, and it references the poem itself, the expression of sadness through words, meter and rhyme.
The poem is about the relationship of a couple in which the man, a soldier has returned from war bearing the scarring of having been shot. The bullet has ricocheted through his body. The scars continue for a long time after the war has ended and the poem is metaphorically describing the scars in their relationship as well. Sometimes the poem has been subtitled ‘Laura’s Poem’ and the name of the narrator is Laura. It is quite unusual for a male poet to write from a female perspective as it gives a feminine response to the agony suffered not only by the wounded solider but the woman who has to try to heal him after the war.The structure of the poem is couplet long stanzas which reflect the slow, painful and fragmented route to recovery – it