The poem “Somebody blew up America” by Amiri Baraka centers around the attack on the world Trade Center and the media’s claims of Osama Bin Laden being the master mind behind the attack. In this poem, Baraka shows the hidden messages of systematic racism that has long been embedded in the United States history. The 9/11 poem takes a different approach, as each stanza in Baraka’s poem explains the act of racial terrorism being the main reason behind the 9/11 attack. Over the years, Baraka’s work has seen a transitional change from Nationalist to Third World Socialist. Baraka remained a difficult figure to approach, especially when he created his most controversial poem “Somebody blew up America”.
One poet who believed that Baraka’s has seen a transitional change from Nationalist to Third World Socialist is poet Vernon Shetley. In The News Vernon Shetley states the following about Baraka “As a brief coda, let me return to Amiri Baraka – return, in fact, to a time when he was LeRoi Jones(Gray 43). In this quote, Shetley believes Baraka’s The Dead Lecture, from 1964, makes powerful poetry out conflicts and ambivalences that Baraka resolved in later transformations of his poetic style and political orientation. …show more content…
In lines __ states, “As weird as it is, /Love is a form of knowledge, and any persons you say you love know “. The lines showed him testing the racial views held by America, seeing the bigger importance behind the puzzles of Love and its lessons. He also allowed both black and white readers to see puzzles of Love being compelling and effective. In Baraka/Jones poem “An Agony, Now” he discusses being uneasy with himself because he was stuck inside himself. He made a conscious discussion to change. He did not like the person he had become and knew he had to
One poet who believed that Baraka’s has seen a transitional change from Nationalist to Third World Socialist is poet Vernon Shetley. In The News Vernon Shetley states the following about Baraka “As a brief coda, let me return to Amiri Baraka – return, in fact, to a time when he was LeRoi Jones(Gray 43). In this quote, Shetley believes Baraka’s The Dead Lecture, from 1964, makes powerful poetry out conflicts and ambivalences that Baraka resolved in later transformations of his poetic style and political orientation. …show more content…
In lines __ states, “As weird as it is, /Love is a form of knowledge, and any persons you say you love know “. The lines showed him testing the racial views held by America, seeing the bigger importance behind the puzzles of Love and its lessons. He also allowed both black and white readers to see puzzles of Love being compelling and effective. In Baraka/Jones poem “An Agony, Now” he discusses being uneasy with himself because he was stuck inside himself. He made a conscious discussion to change. He did not like the person he had become and knew he had to