Ntozake Shange style of writing and title makes her poems more relatable. Imagery is used to express the trials and tribulations African American women go through. Symbolism and characterization is used to make the women in the play transparent. Shange’s theme of self-awareness and inner strength encourages black women to accept themselves- flaws and all. Ntozake Shange’s use of literary elements in the choreopoem “For colored girls who have considered suicide when the rainbow is enuf” not only depicts the daily struggles of an African American woman, but also encourages African American women.
Ntozake Shange’s style of writing makes her poems more relatable. Shange’s poems are written as a choreopoem. A chorepoem is defined as a form of dramatic expression. Dance, song, poetry, and music are used in a choreopoem. Shange uses poetry and song throughout the play to touch on the issues of race and identity that African American women go through throughout their life. The characters in the play use dance and poetry to figuratively move past their trials and tribulations into a life of self-acceptance. (BC Theater) Shange …show more content…
Shange uses seven women in her play. The women in the play are distinguished my colors: lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in purple, and lady in brown. “Each poem unraveled from the piece tells the narrative of a woman or girl and her struggles with life.”(Richard, 14) Without names, the actors are able to reach out to different women with different experiences. (Richard, 12) The seven women in the play have a range in age from a young teenage girl to an older woman. “She can move on, change through the body; it is for this reason that for colored girls offers movement, instability, the subject is in process/ on trial, or in the making” (Hammad, 264). Names are not needed in the choreopoem because it restricts the women’s
Ntozake Shange’s style of writing makes her poems more relatable. Shange’s poems are written as a choreopoem. A chorepoem is defined as a form of dramatic expression. Dance, song, poetry, and music are used in a choreopoem. Shange uses poetry and song throughout the play to touch on the issues of race and identity that African American women go through throughout their life. The characters in the play use dance and poetry to figuratively move past their trials and tribulations into a life of self-acceptance. (BC Theater) Shange …show more content…
Shange uses seven women in her play. The women in the play are distinguished my colors: lady in red, lady in orange, lady in yellow, lady in green, lady in blue, lady in purple, and lady in brown. “Each poem unraveled from the piece tells the narrative of a woman or girl and her struggles with life.”(Richard, 14) Without names, the actors are able to reach out to different women with different experiences. (Richard, 12) The seven women in the play have a range in age from a young teenage girl to an older woman. “She can move on, change through the body; it is for this reason that for colored girls offers movement, instability, the subject is in process/ on trial, or in the making” (Hammad, 264). Names are not needed in the choreopoem because it restricts the women’s