Two Novels - W.E.B Dubois
Situation:
The poem tells a story, the message he tries to portray is not to give up on life and you can achieve whatever you want, the emotion he describes is determination. The speaker is the mother of the son and is through a fictional persona because it is not directed exactly toward the reader; he is just speaking out toward the reader.
Tone:
The speaker’s attitude is inspirational and positive because he mentions that life is not been a crystal ball but you must keep striving.
Form:
There is no rhyme scheme within the poem, it is written in free style. Thus maybe to emphasis that you are free to do anything in life that you aspire to do a long as you put your mind to it.
Movement:
The poem overlaps into a deeper meaning of determination then goes back to “life for me ain’t been no crystal star”
Syntax
There are 20 sentences in the poem and they are all simple.
Punctuation:
There are a lot of commas within the poem. This isn’t an example of an end-stopped line. I believe the poet wants the reader to stop midway through the sentence to think about and take in what you are reading.
Language:
The language is simple and I knew what the words meant.
Allusion:
There is allusion to reality of life and how you must push through problems
Imagery:
The poet gives the reader a visual relative view rather than no connection to the poem at all.
Rhyme Scheme:
There was no rhyme scheme within the poem, but still a flow easy to follow. The poem created a change in attitude for the reader because it created a feeling for the reader to feel as anything is possible and nothing in life can hold one down as long as one is willing to push through and overcome challenges.
The poem tells a story, the message he tries to portray is not to give up on life and you can achieve whatever you want, the emotion he describes is determination. The speaker is the mother of the son and is through a fictional persona because it is not directed exactly toward the reader; he is just speaking out toward the reader.
Tone:
The speaker’s attitude is inspirational and positive because he mentions that life is not been a crystal ball but you must keep striving.
Form:
There is no rhyme scheme within the poem, it is written in free style. Thus maybe to emphasis that you are free to do anything in life that you aspire to do a long as you put your mind to it.
Movement:
The poem overlaps into a deeper meaning of determination then goes back to “life for me ain’t been no crystal star”
Syntax
There are 20 sentences in the poem and they are all simple.
Punctuation:
There are a lot of commas within the poem. This isn’t an example of an end-stopped line. I believe the poet wants the reader to stop midway through the sentence to think about and take in what you are reading.
Language:
The language is simple and I knew what the words meant.
Allusion:
There is allusion to reality of life and how you must push through problems
Imagery:
The poet gives the reader a visual relative view rather than no connection to the poem at all.
Rhyme Scheme:
There was no rhyme scheme within the poem, but still a flow easy to follow. The poem created a change in attitude for the reader because it created a feeling for the reader to feel as anything is possible and nothing in life can hold one down as long as one is willing to push through and overcome challenges.
Reconstruction Era HighLights
- 4,000 schools built throughout Freedmen Bureau.
- Jim Crow laws supported random violence and systematic violence.
- Lincoln said the Civil War was a test of whether the nation could endure.
- The 13, 14, and 15th amendments were passed.
- Post bail-um task to reaffirm, blue print for a new improved version of "City Upon a Hill"
- The reconstruction act struck codes that denied Blacks their rights and established to Freedmen Bureau.
- European immigrants provided much of the labor for northern factories.
- In both the North and the South, they were given priority over African Americans in skilled trades and personal services.
- 1883 the Supreme Court outlawed the Civil Rights Act of 1875 by upholding the Jim Crow Laws of Tennessee.
- Big business was providing standard of living for most Americans.
- Literacy among African Americans increased in the late nineteenth century and the Black middle class and even small but wealthy social elite grew in number and influence.
- Large numbers of African Americans left the South, fleeing violence, industrial cities of Chicago Detroit, New York and Pittsburgh.
- Before the Civil War, literature had played a vital role in influencing public attitudes.
- African Americans relied heavily on personal testimony.
- Many churches for example became active in providing academic education and expanding their ministries.
- African Americans writers revised character types and situations to fit the changes in society.
- African American writers participated in the major literacy trends that appeared between the two wars.
- They wrote realistic, naturalistic, sentimental fiction.
- Often, they subtly revised the themes and techniques of white writers.
- Finding a publisher can be a major problem for any writer. For African American writers this obstacle was often insurmountable