In the poem “White Comedy” by. Benjamin Zephaniah, it talks about how a black man,in particular, is talking about white people and how they are acting in a negative way towards the black community. Influence, is what you want to feel, not what you need to feel. Benjamin Zephaniah uses similes, imagery, diction metonymy,and a little bit of allusion, in the poem “White Comedy”, in order to show what the speaker is going through, this tough time in his life.
First, in Benjamin Zephaniah's poem “White Comedy”, it shows similes and imagery in certain parts of the poem. The way similes are shown in poem are in lines 6,9,12,14 and 16, and they almost mean the same thing, but in a different structure, for example, Zephaniah writes “I slaved as a whitesmith”(6), and “Some hailed me …show more content…
The way imagery is shown in “White Comedy”, is shown in almost every line, because every line either has a different meaning or the same type of …show more content…
So, the speaker decided that he would change his words, a little bit, when he spoke for example “... Black House” (21), instead of White House and “...whitesmith” (6), instead of blacksmith. Also, the author uses multiple shifts in between lines 5-6, 8-9, 12-13, 17-18, and 18-19, because it’s showing the different tones of voice and mood. However, the structure of the poem in a staggered form, which is what gives the poem a different tone, a different sound and rhythm. Finally, the poem has varied amount of figurative devices, of attitudes, of shifts in the poem, and the difference in structure it has compared to other poems, just to show reader what the author’s point is to making this poem, and possibly getting it across the reader’s
First, in Benjamin Zephaniah's poem “White Comedy”, it shows similes and imagery in certain parts of the poem. The way similes are shown in poem are in lines 6,9,12,14 and 16, and they almost mean the same thing, but in a different structure, for example, Zephaniah writes “I slaved as a whitesmith”(6), and “Some hailed me …show more content…
The way imagery is shown in “White Comedy”, is shown in almost every line, because every line either has a different meaning or the same type of …show more content…
So, the speaker decided that he would change his words, a little bit, when he spoke for example “... Black House” (21), instead of White House and “...whitesmith” (6), instead of blacksmith. Also, the author uses multiple shifts in between lines 5-6, 8-9, 12-13, 17-18, and 18-19, because it’s showing the different tones of voice and mood. However, the structure of the poem in a staggered form, which is what gives the poem a different tone, a different sound and rhythm. Finally, the poem has varied amount of figurative devices, of attitudes, of shifts in the poem, and the difference in structure it has compared to other poems, just to show reader what the author’s point is to making this poem, and possibly getting it across the reader’s