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 concrete” by Tupac Shakur uses metaphor throughout the whole poem. The rose represents someone makes something out of themselves even when others didn’t care. This poem is fairly short but the speaker talks about a rose being able to “ walk with out having
