How Does Frances Ellen Watkins Harper Use The Victim In The Slave Auction

The beginning of the poem starts off with African Americans going to the North and seeing faces that resemble theirs in Harlem. They are remembered of the hardships in the South but their aim is to get to the North where there is a better life. The key words “cotton and green pastures” show us the escape route that those of color are leaving to get a better life. The poem cites that “Cotton still stuck in their shoes, Zotts ! waiting to be shipped back to green pastures. The idea of escaping and moving away is in the determination to move on even though you are tired and dirty from the cotton stuck in the shoes waiting for many different opportunities.

Poems are built with tradition, but in his case, the speaker wants to end tradition just as he wants to end racism. In line two and three, they both end with the same word which is called symploce. Symploce is a combination of anaphora and epistrophe which implies that these two lines are an important point of the figure of speech. The poem was written by stating a cause and effect. The line beginng with by is the cause and I being the effect. Its an explination of how he will fight social injustice. It also helps readers to use and understand the most effective way to fight social

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs strongly speaks to its readers by describing the brutalities of slavery and the way slave owners can destroy peaceful lives. After reading and rereading the story have noticed certain things regarding how Jacobs tries to educate her readers and her intended audience which is the women of the North. As if we do not know enough about how terrible slavery is, this story gives detailed examples of the lives of slaves and provokes an incredible amount of emotions. She uses several tactics in her writing to reach her desired audience and does so very well.

She also presents a slight rhythm to the reading that allows for smooth reading. In keeping with her open form, there is no set scheme to the rhyme pattern. However, there is a single ending sound constantly repeated without a set pattern throughout the work. She also connects pairs of lines at random just for the sake of making connections to make that particular stanza flow. At the same time, she chose blatantly not to rhyme in certain parts to catch the reader’s attention.

In the blank space before the third stanza we infer that the woman has killed the flea. He is upset at the woman because she killed the flea and wants to know how this flea was guilty. The tone of the poem changes in this stanza because now, he is chastising her for her sins. He is even cool and harsh when he says, “Just so much honor, when thou yield’st to me, /Will waste, as this flea’s death took life from thee” (26-27) He then concludes by explaining that having sex with him would be just as trivial as killing the flea.

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The beginning of the poem portrays a man’s struggles on the sea. He outlines the bitter cold, describing how “[His] feet were cast / In icy bands, bound with frost, / With frozen chains” (8-10), a vivid image of how demanding this lifestyle could be. Clearly a veteran sailor who has “[suffered] in a hundred ships, / In a thousand ports” (4-5), he wonders at his own desire to continue his trade. Despite the desolation and the unforgiving

Slavery has always been the most dreadful phenomena of our world. Slavery, by itself looks so unusual and provokes mixed feelings from the heart of each person. In other words, slavery change a human being into a “thing” or even some type of consumer item. However, a fugitive slave, Frederick Douglass writes the novel called “The Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass” to reveal how the slavery system works. Douglass’ narrative resembles not so much an autobiography as a memoir. If we read this novel closely, women often appear not in a primary plot, but in a short passage and as a vivid images; specifically, an image of abused bodies. Douglass associates women with suffering. Also, he gives an understanding

Throughout the poem, there is no consistent rhyme scheme, but this stanza has assonance. The repetition of the vowels helps to form scat music. The jazz-filled stanza incorporates a melody. This stanza dramatizes the Harlem Renaissance at its finest. In these moments, there is happiness, but the happiness is temporary because African Americans still have to live through their reality. In the last stanza, there are the letters “y-e-a-h!” It is unclear who says this line or if both the listener and the speaker say these letters together. Despite the person who delivers the line, the letters conclude the poem and the exclamation point used can represent someone shouting with happiness or maybe even

Reading a poem written by Frances Watkins Harper, is like being transported to the 1800’s; one minute the reader is sitting in a chair reading the first stanza of what seems a simple poem, and before one knows it, they are an abolitionist watching a family being torn apart at a slave auction. Harper does this transporting through her use of tone. A writer creates a particular tone in his or her writing using literary tools like characterization, diction, or theme. Harper strongly protests against slavery and portrays the horrid realities of slavery, in several of her poems, and accomplishes this through the use of diction and imagery.

The poem is meant to show the difference between the maid and the employer. Its portraying how slavery was still a common factor and how Alberta was treated

A tercet is a three-line stanza. These stanzas are mostly made up of short, choppy lines with a mix of enjambment and end stop lines that can been seen as an example in lines 22-24 when the speaker says: “[This] is Number Three. (end stop)/ What a Trash (enjambment)/To annihilate each decade. (end stop). When read aloud, the words move quickly and forcefully. It almost sounds like the speaker is spitting her words out to the reader in disgust. This could relate to her overall feelings of disgust throughout the poem. This poem also has use of perfect rhyme and slant rhyme. One instance of perfect rhyme happens in lines 83-84, where the words hair and air rhyme. An example of slant rhyme occurs in lines 71-72, where the words burn and concern sound rhythmical. Also, there is use in anaphora in “I do it so it feels like hell” (line 46) and “ I do it so it feels real” (line 47). While these various kinds of repetitions of sounds occur all over the place in "Lady Lazarus," they do not occur in a particular pattern. The rhymes have an off-kilter feel to them, and this allows the poem to be fast and free wheeling. The reader never knows when a rhyme or some other kind of repetition is going to happen next. I think it works to the feeling of the speaker very effectively because the speaker is in an erratic state of mind.

Hardy’s poem is composed of six four-line stanzas. The rhyme scheme of the poem consists of an AABB that is carried throughout each stanza. For example in the first stanza the last word in line one, “crown!” rhymes with the last word in line two, “Town?” also the word “prosperi-ty?” the last word in line three rhymes with the word “she” the last and final word of the stanza. This poem is mostly presented in a 3rd person point of view, Melia the main character of the poem is telling the story, but comments in every fourth line of each stanza. Hardy also uses repetition in his poem, for example, each stanza ends with “ruin” or “’ruined,” said she.’” The Ruined Maid contains a dramatic dialogue and has verbal comments between two characters.

The poem has a tight, intricate rhyme scheme interlacing all three stanzas: abcd, abcd, abcd, a feet in itself, but the effort shows in the limp line :“Soon they’ll be ruffled,” which fits the subject but strains for its rhyme , and the weak “a” and “d” rhymes, especially the latter, push the poem, inappropriately, toward humor. The point of view in the poem is an impersonal telling, distanced until the “we” of the last line. Her poem has obvious strengths—a firm opening line with a powerful verb, alliteration and the musical, a slow build- up to the strangeness of the penultimate line, the terror of the close - - and more concealed effects. The juxtaposition of indifferent nature, night, out there, against the apparently ordered hospital,