Poetry is utilized as way for people to express their feeling in a different way. There is more to it than rhythm schemes and different tones. African Americans have utilized poetry as voice because they never had one during slavery and segregation era. The Angles of Ascent: an anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry has showed their respect for the many poets that are recognized within this anthology. There are over five hundred poems that can help create a vision of what is like years ago. However, there are also poems by artist who are still alive and able to make a connection with their people. The poems that will be focused on will be Robert Hayden’s For a Young Artist, Bobb Hamilton’s Poem to a Nigger Cop, Amiri Baraka’s Black Art, and Thomas Sayers Ellis’s All Their Stanzas Look. All these poems genuinely have something in common, they all refer to change and each poet demonstrates and analyzes why African Americans need to be and stay different. Robert Hayden’s For a Young Artist utilizes key components in his stanzas to illustrate a
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We were enslaved by this society, treated like objects and was stripped of our identity by the white people. The law enforcement is solely based to tear a nigger down, which is seen to be a way of conformity to live protected. However, Hamilton also tries to manipulate the readers as to why the cop shooting his mother who stole “a TV set that is tied up in a bandana trying to catch a train to Springfield Gardens” (Hamilton, 50). This situation then becomes a conflicting dilemma for the cop because he now has to choose between the law and his own mother. Nonetheless regardless of your affiliation with the suspect you have to do your job. But, then Hamilton probably utilizes this situation to create a conflicting scenario to tell African Americans as to why they do not need to be a part of the law
We were enslaved by this society, treated like objects and was stripped of our identity by the white people. The law enforcement is solely based to tear a nigger down, which is seen to be a way of conformity to live protected. However, Hamilton also tries to manipulate the readers as to why the cop shooting his mother who stole “a TV set that is tied up in a bandana trying to catch a train to Springfield Gardens” (Hamilton, 50). This situation then becomes a conflicting dilemma for the cop because he now has to choose between the law and his own mother. Nonetheless regardless of your affiliation with the suspect you have to do your job. But, then Hamilton probably utilizes this situation to create a conflicting scenario to tell African Americans as to why they do not need to be a part of the law