Rober Hayden's “Middle Passage” is an emotional tale of struggle and descriptions of the brutality and cruelty Hayden saw on the slavers.His vivid description take the audience below the decks of the ship.Many africans died from diseases,hunger,suicide,and trauma.Throughout the poem Hayden is seemed as a good black person and isn’t himself punished or starved like the Africans he witnessed.His story is accurate of how small the space was between chained slaves and the hot temperatures on the ships.
Haydens point of view is to act as a judge who is recalling all the acts the white men put on Africans.To show how the fear was installed on slavers,he included how no one was told where they were going or any type of description at all.This made …show more content…
As the poem was taken from the perspective of Robert Hayden we don’t know the emotions of other Africans but most can infer they were the same.Just as confused and sick as Hayden.The author describes the middle passage as a “voyage through death to life upon these shores”.The ships carrying the slaves according to Hayden were a “festering hold”.He knew it was just to keep slaves together to travel somewhere else.
Hayden tells the poem as a unflavored character by God.He may believe God is not present while on the voyage due to the cruelty taking place.Hayden even tells about the Amistad mutiny and the leader Cinquez , he is described as a warrior and conquered and only wishes to be freed.This was a good choice to , put Cinquez in the poem since all the slaves wish was to be freed of
Haydens point of view is to act as a judge who is recalling all the acts the white men put on Africans.To show how the fear was installed on slavers,he included how no one was told where they were going or any type of description at all.This made …show more content…
As the poem was taken from the perspective of Robert Hayden we don’t know the emotions of other Africans but most can infer they were the same.Just as confused and sick as Hayden.The author describes the middle passage as a “voyage through death to life upon these shores”.The ships carrying the slaves according to Hayden were a “festering hold”.He knew it was just to keep slaves together to travel somewhere else.
Hayden tells the poem as a unflavored character by God.He may believe God is not present while on the voyage due to the cruelty taking place.Hayden even tells about the Amistad mutiny and the leader Cinquez , he is described as a warrior and conquered and only wishes to be freed.This was a good choice to , put Cinquez in the poem since all the slaves wish was to be freed of