“Lift every Voice and Sing” ,is the Negro National.Black people chose this song as the National Anthem because Weldon talks about everything that was done wrong to African American Slaves and how they always had faith in god and never forgot where they came from. “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, is a song about African Americans violent past and bright future.Weldon wrote this song to shine light on African Americans and their past to show people how determined and strong we are. “Lift Every Voice and Sing”, affects the whole black community by giving them hope when times are bad and help them understand what there ancesters went threw.The tone and mood changes many times during the song,because Weldon wants us to feel hopeful ,sad ,and thankful.In
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Let our rejoicing rise.”
These verses have the same tone or mood they give us because Weldon uses figurative language to give us a idea of how we should sing for our ancestors and what happened to them.The first stanza in the song/poem is mostly trying to persuade us that everything is good and nothing bad is going to happen.Weldon sets that tone by telling us to sing and be rejoiceful.
As we start to listen to the second stanza the tone switches to sad,because he starts talking about the African slaves past.In verses 11 & 12 the author uses the shortend version of “Chastening”,and uses the word rod to set a certain tone of triumph or accomplishment. “Stony the road we trod.Bitter the chastning rod.”Trod means to have walked on something and chastening means scolding or punishing.That quote means that the stick the Slave-owners used to beat the slaves was punishing or scolding.Because Weldon uses those words the reader shows empathy for African American slaves,because he’s showing their pain and mistreatment.As the song continues Weldon starts to talk about how sad the africans were and how they started to think about the future.The tone in verses 16-21 is first sad and tearful then hopeful and …show more content…
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”, and “Lift Your Voice and Sing” are two very different titles because one word was changed.Because every was changed to your the purpose of the song changed from everyone singing for happiness to just one person singing for happiness.That one word affects the song by changing who is affected by the song.Because Weldon uses every us as the listener’s would think the song is going to be about all the African American Slaves and how they was mistreated.If Weldon would 've used the word your us as the listener’s would think the song is going to be about Weldon telling one person to sing for all the African American Slaves.The message the song gives us could be changed because in the original title the word every gives us a message about all the African Americans singing for each other and not just for their own selves.When the title is “Lift Your Voice and Sing”, the message is one person singing for all the other people and their future.Weldon titled the song "Lift Every Voice And Sing" because of the fact that he 's telling all blacks to do the same thing. Blacks were told to be quiet when they were slaves;
Let our rejoicing rise.”
These verses have the same tone or mood they give us because Weldon uses figurative language to give us a idea of how we should sing for our ancestors and what happened to them.The first stanza in the song/poem is mostly trying to persuade us that everything is good and nothing bad is going to happen.Weldon sets that tone by telling us to sing and be rejoiceful.
As we start to listen to the second stanza the tone switches to sad,because he starts talking about the African slaves past.In verses 11 & 12 the author uses the shortend version of “Chastening”,and uses the word rod to set a certain tone of triumph or accomplishment. “Stony the road we trod.Bitter the chastning rod.”Trod means to have walked on something and chastening means scolding or punishing.That quote means that the stick the Slave-owners used to beat the slaves was punishing or scolding.Because Weldon uses those words the reader shows empathy for African American slaves,because he’s showing their pain and mistreatment.As the song continues Weldon starts to talk about how sad the africans were and how they started to think about the future.The tone in verses 16-21 is first sad and tearful then hopeful and …show more content…
“Lift Every Voice and Sing”, and “Lift Your Voice and Sing” are two very different titles because one word was changed.Because every was changed to your the purpose of the song changed from everyone singing for happiness to just one person singing for happiness.That one word affects the song by changing who is affected by the song.Because Weldon uses every us as the listener’s would think the song is going to be about all the African American Slaves and how they was mistreated.If Weldon would 've used the word your us as the listener’s would think the song is going to be about Weldon telling one person to sing for all the African American Slaves.The message the song gives us could be changed because in the original title the word every gives us a message about all the African Americans singing for each other and not just for their own selves.When the title is “Lift Your Voice and Sing”, the message is one person singing for all the other people and their future.Weldon titled the song "Lift Every Voice And Sing" because of the fact that he 's telling all blacks to do the same thing. Blacks were told to be quiet when they were slaves;