The Rose That Grew From The Concrete Essay

Poetry and songwriting both share a significance when it comes to creating a vivid image in the readers mind. Rapper Tupac Shakur and Harlem Renaissance Poet Langston Hughes both share that in common as artist when it comes to using imagery and personification to showcase their feelings. “The Rose That Grew from Concrete” by Shakur and “Juke Box Love Song” by Hughes are prime examples of both artist explaining their harsh environments to express the beauty they find in it all, and although they are similar in that manner the authors differ by the way they find beauty in the struggle. Shakur is using the beauty of nature to express his personal struggles while Hughes is describing beauty in Harlem, New York’s culture. Nature is a beautiful thing,…

“The Rose that Grew from Concrete,” is written by Tupac Amaru Shakur. The poem is short, and is an autobiographical dramatic monologue in which the speaker addresses aspects of the poet’s life. The idea that the poem is a dramatic monologue is demonstrated by the one sided question the speaker asks the reader: “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?” The poem is dramatic as it is spoken in a moment of deep emotion, as the speaker passionately discusses the subject,…

Tupac Shakur’s peom, “The Rose That Grew From Concrete,” it holds several symbolic pieces that contribute to a theme of perseverance over all else. The first symbol presented to us is probably also the one with the deepest meaning. The rose. A rose has heavy connotative layers on both the positive and negative ends of the spectrum. For instance, it is typically considered the most beautiful of flowers and is often used as a gift, just as Tupac is the most beautiful of his kind and provides his…

The poet Tupac Shakur faced a good deal of racial discrimination throughout his life. His poem “The rose that grew from concrete” is about Tupac Shakur sticking to his dream even though the hard times. The speaker describes the feeling of what arise when he held on to his dream. In “The rose grew from concrete” the main literary devices that Tupac Shakur used was metaphor to compare the difficulty of keeping your dream even when no else was there to support you. In “The rose that grew from…

The Rose that Grew From Concrete by Tupac Shakur helped me understand more about tolerance because in most of the poems he’s talked about his struggles. In his poem “Life Through My Eyes” Tupac wrote “[l]ife through my bloodshot eyes/ would scare a square 2 death/ poverty, murder, violence” (11), and that is him talking about the things he’s seen and been through. Later in the poem he wrote “[b]ut mark my words when I say/ my heart will not exist/ unless my destiny comes through/ and puts an…

The Rose that Grew from the Concrete by Tupac Shakur is about reaching our goals in life despite the hardships that we face on the way. Tupac wrote this poem, telling the story of his harsh childhood growing up in the ghetto but then soon became successful. The rose symbolizes the people stuck within the system of the ghetto and how just because a person is from a tough environment, it does not define how their life would turn out. Throughout the poem, evidence of figurative language and inner…

“We must accept finite disappointment But never lose infinite Hope (Martin Luther King Jr.)”. In the poem, “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” written by Tupac Shakur, the persona believes in having hope. Hence, regardless of if the rose was leaning or even if it was missing a few petals, anyone would be amazed seeing a rose grow from concrete. Thus, individuals will be amaze because roses do not grow from concrete rather grass. This is evidence of some form of hope or faith that was endured.…

“Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?” The poem “The Rose that Grew from Concrete” written by Tupac Shakur, in 1999 was published long after Madam CJ Walker passed, but screams her life story. Many people will be surprised that one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire was an African American named Madam CJ Walker, also known as Sarah Breedlove. Many will also be uprised that the same person is from a small rural town called, Delta,…

On September 29, 2015, I visited the Tupac Shakur painting at Robert W. Woodruff library. Tupac was a legend and still is even after being desist for over eighteen years. Tupac was born in June 16, 1971 in East Harlem, New York. He was not just a rapper but also a poet, one of his most popular poem is “The rose that grew from concrete.” Pac wrote the poem before he was famous, the poem is about how he came from nothing and sees himself as something beautiful that can succeed from a turbulent and…

In Macbeth, its original text took many times of rereading and reanalyzing for me to comfortably move on. This differed much from Roses That Grew From Concrete. This book had an assortment of poems for me to interpret rather than comprehend, causing me to flow through each page quickly (compared to Macbeth). I also based the difficulty order of the publications listed on the length of the novel. The thicker books included much more detail and information to analyze. Throughout the year, my…