In "We Wear the Mask," people suffer because life is painful and people hide their pain from the world. Dunbar writes the "clay is vile" beneath their feet, implying life on earth is hard and difficult. They do not change their situations because they cannot -- it is implied that to live is to suffer. In the poem these people appeal to Christ to save them.
In "Sympathy," the bird suffers because it is caged. It sees the beauty of the world around it but it cannot participate in it. The bird cannot change its situation because it is literally imprisoned. The caged bird appeals in its pain to Heaven, hoping God will relive its suffering.
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the significance of Douglass' introduction to "The Liberator"? It provided him with knowledge of the anti-slavery movement, as well as a purpose and voice within the movement.
She describes the great risks that she and other slaves took in order to learn.
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The weary blues is about power and pain of black art.The poem describes a black blues singer playing in a bar in Harlem late into the night.It talks about how society and racist and how In other words, it honors the beauty of black art while also acknowledging the weight of the pain that led to its creation.This shows how power is used positively we can also say how oppression on the black race results on the negative impact of the poem.
Talk about which side is stronger by using the theme power!!!
The poem thus doesn't follow a set form—like the sonnet. So its not a love poet.Instead, it uses its formal elements to help it imitate a blues song. It has no set meter or rhyme scheme—though many of its lines, including lines 1 and 2 form rhyming couplets which enables the speaker to express his feelings and emotions thoroughly. in free verse with an irregular rhyme scheme, mimicking the natural patterns of speech and music. Plus their is a good use of repetition emphasizing how oppression has effected identity and created fear in their heart.Through the the use of speech identity is shown we can link this to the power and conflict cluster to the poem ChECKING OUT ME HISTORY.
1. Eurylochus - troublemaker of Odysseus's crew
2. Sisyphus - cheated death twice.
3. Agamemnon - famously distrustful of women
4. Circe - tells Odysseus's future
5. Hermes - advises Odysseus on how to not become a pig
6. Zeus - destroyss Odysseus's ship with a thunderbolt.
7. Poseidon - destroys Odysseus's raft with a storm
8. Aeolus - master of winds
9. Antiphates - king of the Laestrygonians
10. Nausicaa - Phaeacian princess
