Answer:
The ideas presented about prison life in these references by the speaker is about how it feels like to be in confinement.
Explanation:
'Cloudy Day' is a poem written by Jimmy Santiago Baca. The speaker of the poem is someone who is confined in the prison and narrates to his reader about what it feels like to be in confinement. Despite the speaker is in confinement, the poem speaks of hope.
In lines 9-12 and 20-23, the speaker is presenting the ideas of what it feels like to be in confinement. While sitting in his cell, the speaker sees outside where guards are guarding. The speaker tries to think what freedoms look like and how it will look like when he will be out of the prison.
Answer:
to better understand and appreciate their heritage
Explanation:
In the last line of the excerpt he wants these artists to "cause the smug Negro middle class to turn from their white, respectable, ordinary books and papers to catch a glimmer of their won beauty." In this line "their own beauty" is the heritage of African Americans. The "near intellectuals" aren't musicians and writers. They are African Americans who are paying attention more to white culture than their own history.
Answer:
Question 1: It would be D or A.
Question 2: It would be D.
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