Step One: Select One poem from each chapter and post your response before the beginning of class on the specific dates mentioned above.
Step Two: Prepare a poetry SOAPTone paragraph response to your poem. (Subject/Theme, Object, Audience (s), Purpose, and Tone, Shifts, and brief personal response by making connection to yourself, text, or world)
Step Three: ***IMPORTANT: Have the CONFIDENCE to analyze this selected poem on your OWN! Do not Google or look up anybody else’s analysis of your poem! Remember…the GREAT thing about poetry is that everyone can interpret it DIFFERENTLY.
Step Four: After positing your response using the Blog, your will present your poem selection orally in class. First read the poem clearly and with expression. (It should NOT sound like you’re reading this poem for the first time. Then explain the meaning of the poem and your rationale for choosing it.
Discuss each selected poem using a poetry SOAPTone paragraph response to the selected poem (Subject/Theme, Object, Audience (s), Purpose, and Tone, Shifts, and brief personal response by making connection to you, text, or world). Elaborate your response. Please note that you should support your response with textual evidence. To get the full number of points, I require one post a week. Each post should be a minimum of one paragraph- no less than 250 Words.
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In the poem “A Short Journey” from Voices Beyond Bondage, the speakers are dealing with the lost of their mother. They depict that even though she is gone her spirit lies with them. Through out the poem, the speakers tone shows that they are taking their mother’s death hard. However, they are trying to look at it as a good thing too. For example, in the poem, it states, “She is gone, but not forever, / Mother’s face will see again; / She has only crossed the river, / And is resting free from pain. / Through the weary days of sickness, / How she suffered none can tell.” This quote demonstrates that the speakers feel that even though their mother is not there with them, she is in a better place because now she can really rest in peace. While she was on earth, she was in pain and she suffered from sickness but now that she has been called to heaven she no longer has to go through that. To them this is not good-bye. It is see you later. In the poem, it states, “But she’s now within the city / Where there never comes an ill. / Though our home is sad and lonely, / And to us she ne’er can come, / In future we shall greet her, / When our journey here is done.” This textual evidence states that one day they will meet their mother again. In other words, even though they miss their mother and things are not the same without her, they know that when their time is over here on earth, they will get to be with her. This poem relates to me because when my grandmother died, I was really sad. My grandmother only had one leg and she was sick, seeing her like that really made me unhappy. When I saw her laying in the casket my heart dropped, I could not stop crying. I then realized that my grandmother was better a better place. She is in God hands, no harm can come to her. I had to look at things from the bright side. I miss my grandmother a lot but I know that one day we will meet again.
In the poem "The Youthful Captive" from Voices Beyond Bondage, the speaker depicts a young captive. The poem depicts a young captive chained to walls of stone in a dungeon. While the captive remains chained to the stone walls he/she hears a friendly tone. The captive has grown dull and tiresome, deep sadness wares his features. Darkness clouds the captives spirit as he suffers being imprisoned in a dungeon chained to walls. However as daylight fades the captive wanders in his dreams/memories etc, gleaming with a sense of hope.
The message of "The Youthful Captive" is hope, to remain hopeful when times are dark and uneasy. The poems message of hope is represented by the captives dreams/memories and his/her gleaming sense of hope. An example of the captives dreams/memories is his remembrance of his mother's sweet voice, as he/she describes as being sweet as the carol of a bird. As music fraught each gentle word the captives heart lit just as blissful days of yore. In addition the captive also mentions that before grief swept his/her spirit, "A father's care was his once more". That made him/her make all seem bright.
In conclusion the poem "The Youth Captive" from Voices Beyond Bondage delivers the message of hope. The poems message of hope.is represented by the captives dreams/memories. The poem depicts a young captive imprisoned in a dungeon chained to stone walls. Furthermore, the captive grows dull, tiresome, sad and darkness clouds his spirit. As daylight fades the captive wanders in his dreams/memories, gleaming with hope he/she remembers his/her mother's sweet voice and reminisces on the past. Lastly the poem "The Youthful Captive" is about hope.
Based on the poem “The Star and the Child” by Anonymous in the story Voices Beyond Bondage the subject/theme of this poem would be that the deceased loved one might not be living on earth but are in heaven. In other words they might not be there physically but they are mentally. The object of this poem would be to comfort readers and persuade them to use their imagination. Also enjoy and love the people around you because you never know when there time to come is. For example, “She smiled until the eyelids closed…And then she wept, and then forgot-The child was still living in heaven.” This quote points out that even though they aren’t alive in reality they will always be there. The audience of this poem would be a mother losing their child or anyone losing a loved one. The main purpose of this poem is to persuade people that their loved one would be with them. Also its good to hope and wish but u have to face reality once it’s all said and done. “…And smiled, as in its eyes she saw –A hope that might still live on”. This quote states that she has hope in this dying child and wishes for the best. The tone of this poem would be satiric because the author adds the fact that the woman cried but in the end she realized something important: he/she will still live on. In the poem the author goes from feeling hopeful to feeling sorrow. This poem could relate to the real world because a loved one could be dying and instead of thinking about the death think about all the times you’ve shared and know they would always be there.
In the poem “To ******,” from Voices Beyond Bondage the speaker addresses the events that are going on in that time. In particular, the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850 in which if a slave escapes and is found in a free country, they would to be returned to their masters. Although it is not openly say it, the text is directed at President Fillmore and the people who go along believe in the law. The speaker thinks that whoever partakes in the act by returning the slaves, does so for the reward and have no regards for the slave they returned. For example, the text states, “For partry gold hast thou, with bloodhound zeal, /Hunted the poor, and crushed them ‘neath thy hell; / With deep-bayed vengeance howl’d upon their track: / To Slavery’s hell intent to drag them to roam.” This quote illustrates that people would return the slaves with no hesitation for a small reward. Furthermore the quote explains how barbaric anyone who returns fugitive slave because they are basically helpless and just trying to get away. The purpose of the text is to complain about how much more difficult slavery is getting. The government is passing more and more laws at this time making it harder for slaves. Another purpose is to describe how bad their lives are being slaves no that it is harder to escape into Free states because they can just be returned. The speaker has an indignant tone because the speaker seems angry because he/she is being treated unfairly in reverence to the Fugitive Act and Slavery in all.
The poem "To Frederick Douglass" was written after hearing home lecture. The speaker was empowered by Frederick Douglass's strength, and his ability to stand up for black people. The speaker is a black man who feels the power in Frederick Douglass's words. Someone who can resonate with his struggles, and is living the life of uppersion. The speaker wrote this during the abolitionist movement. During s time where black people were looked at as a blemish on American society. During a time when thing people thought black people were used for was to be a slave. The speaker is speaking to Frederick Douglass, and to abolitionists. Telling them to stay steadfast on their journey and their fight for the freedom of the slaves. The speakers purpose for writing this piece was to thank Frederick Douglass, and other abolitionists for their courage to stand up for the "Negroes." The speaker telling them to "Go! speak of Cruelty and wrong," and to never forget why they are on this journey and the people counting on them. The subject of this poem is too thank Frederick Douglass for the great that he is doing. Also, the speakers has an encouraging tone. He is thanking him for the good he has to dobe and continuing to do. This poem was very powerful for me because it opened me up to the good Frederick Douglass has done.
In the poem “On Viewing the Lifeless Remains of a Very Dear Friend” from Voices beyond Bondage the speaker describes how slaves felt when a dear friend was lost. They could not grief because of their masters, but they still cried anyway. For example, “All sense of pain, or fears; / silent, reposing with the dead, unconscious of our tears.” This quote communicates how they did not show their pain or fear. The speakers tone expresses how the slaves felt when a dear friend was lost, knowing how they could not show their emotions. For instance, “They all I lov’d in silence lays, / calmly as if she ne’er had been.” This quote explains how they had to pretend that their friend did not even exist. In addition, the text explorers the theme of gloomy and solemn. The purpose of this poem is to describe how the slaves could not even show feelings towards their lost ones because something might end up happening to them. This poem relates to the world when someone you are very close to dies all of a sudden. You don’t expect it and don’t know how to react to it. Of course you will want to cry and let your feelings out, but you don’t so you can show that you’re strong for your family.
Based on the poem “A short Journey” the author demonstrates that even though there mother is no longer on earth she will always be in there hart and mind all the time. In other words she is dead but she will be remembered with the family. Also even though they miss her they will not break down. For example, in the text its states “We miss the sunshine of thy face, We miss thy kind and willing hand, Thy found and earnest care- Our home is dark without thee- We miss thee everywhere.” This phrase states that they miss there mother presents in the household and just being with her. This poem relates to me because I have dealt with a lost of some one I cared for my family that I would not never forget about and they will always be in my hart. And that person will always be remembered.
In the poem "On Viewing the Lifeless Remains of a Very Dear Friend," from voices beyond bondage delivers the message of love. The poem depicts a man that is in love with a women but is separated by death. The man is in love with this woman but his heart suddenly gets crushed in the matter of seconds. In addition the man reminisces on the memory of his lover, which enlightens him with hope. Further more the pain feels as sharp as the vertex of a knife but moving on is tough. The man thinks about death more often than hope.
The message the author implies is love. The poem message of love is represented by a wonderful couple that has a unbroken bond. An example of love by the man is stated in stanza one "Oh! thine was love so pure and sweet, so tender, firm, and so sincere," he also demonstrates another form of love when he stated "There all i lov'd in silence lays," those quotes both clearly illustrates that their love is unbreakable. The author shifts the mood ofnthe poem when she stop using we and used she.
In conclusion, love is a strong emotion/idea. The text connect to me personally because i've experience both love and terrible pain of being heart broken. With that being said watch who you say you love cause that person might not be forever. You just might be unconsciously in love.
In the poem " In Memory of Abraham Lincoln" from Voices Beyond Bondage,the speaker is giving remembrance to Abraham Lincoln some people just know Abraham Lincoln as the 16th president but he did more than that he played a role in Slavery a positive one at that.Lincoln issued his first Emancipation Proclamation, which announced that at the beginning of 1863,he would use his war powers to free all slaves in states still in rebellion. This poem is just basically giving Abraham Lincoln thanks for what he have done for African Americans. "Thy name , O chief immortal, Shall live as long as time, Inscribed o'er every portal, In every land and clime; And when thy name resound, Be it to stand or fall, The black man shall be found responsive to the call. Freedom's works are stronger; No foe can bridge the stream; The nation's life is longer, Its death was but a dream." This quote illustrates how his name will forever live on and his good deed that he did for Us African Americans.
In the poem "The Black Beauty" the speaker discusses beauty. The theme depicts on someone who believes that they're beautiful and their beauty is rare. The speaker accepts themself for what God created them to be and believes that's it isn't about their looks, but the uniqueness of their beauty. For example, "But my beauty is most rare; Black, indeed, appears my skin, Beauteous, comely, all within: Black, when by affliction press'd, Beauteous, when in Christ I rest; Black, by sin's defiling flood." This means that the speaker's beauty comes from within and blackness covers their skin. By within, this means that the speakers heart, mind, and soul is what excludes appearance. Personality outweighs the look of someone, especially. I would consider my heart more noticeable than my features because it's very positive and humble. When I die, I will be remembered for who i was and not what I was. What I was would just be a bonus.
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