Primary Response Directions:
1. Write your thesis that you plan to explore in response to this prompt. Remember, your thesis must be arguable, not one that lends itself to your writing a plot summary in which you retell what happens in the poems because that is NOT what you are being asked to do! If your thesis cannot be argued, it is not a valid thesis for this essay.
2. What are your topic sentences, the sub-points you plan to argue, in extension of your thesis, that will support it:
Think about how you're going to organize your paper given what you are being tasked with doing--you have to discuss how two works of literature share an aspect and how they differ on an aspect.
a. I think these poems “I Too Sing America” and “The White …show more content…
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
In the other poem I see self-confidence and have an opportunity to flourish. This sometimes makes me think that may be the poet rather feeling more secure with the idea of segregation. That I laugh, I eat well and grow strong.
Going back to my theory that how can the poets write on the behalf of those who are actually experiencing the chains the slavery. The poems tones have similarities and contradictions simultaneously. However, the key to the thesis is that one doesn’t have to be an actual slave to have the thoughts on which the poems were based on. The mistreatment or discrimination can be at its highest effectiveness if it is done intellectually that can have more psychological implications then the physical. I believe that McKay and Hughes understood this phenomenon very well. In my opinion the reason, why these poems talk about similar issues and uses the tone of anger and then contradicting their intent of action in ways because their audiences and writers belong to the same ethnic group. Yet no matter how much desire the writers possessed to have a violent Revolution in the same poems they try to use a phlegmatic
1. Write your thesis that you plan to explore in response to this prompt. Remember, your thesis must be arguable, not one that lends itself to your writing a plot summary in which you retell what happens in the poems because that is NOT what you are being asked to do! If your thesis cannot be argued, it is not a valid thesis for this essay.
2. What are your topic sentences, the sub-points you plan to argue, in extension of your thesis, that will support it:
Think about how you're going to organize your paper given what you are being tasked with doing--you have to discuss how two works of literature share an aspect and how they differ on an aspect.
a. I think these poems “I Too Sing America” and “The White …show more content…
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
In the other poem I see self-confidence and have an opportunity to flourish. This sometimes makes me think that may be the poet rather feeling more secure with the idea of segregation. That I laugh, I eat well and grow strong.
Going back to my theory that how can the poets write on the behalf of those who are actually experiencing the chains the slavery. The poems tones have similarities and contradictions simultaneously. However, the key to the thesis is that one doesn’t have to be an actual slave to have the thoughts on which the poems were based on. The mistreatment or discrimination can be at its highest effectiveness if it is done intellectually that can have more psychological implications then the physical. I believe that McKay and Hughes understood this phenomenon very well. In my opinion the reason, why these poems talk about similar issues and uses the tone of anger and then contradicting their intent of action in ways because their audiences and writers belong to the same ethnic group. Yet no matter how much desire the writers possessed to have a violent Revolution in the same poems they try to use a phlegmatic