Summary Of Ego Tripping Poem

If you were a god or goddess how will you control the world and what will you do. In the poem “Ego tripping” by Nikki Giovanni the poem is from a perspective view. The settings of the poem is taking place in Egypt. The writer had the perspective of goddess and the children she had and how she is ethereal not of earth but heavenly. The poetry talks a lot about the being the goddess that all men will praise and stating, “I turned myself into myself and was jesus.” In this poem many words describe each character that is told.
The metaphor used in this poem describes the speaker feelings. The speaker states that she is so powerful that she is not influential to jesus. The use of the first perspective view of this poem adds personal feel to both the reader and narrator. Giovanni use of pronouns …show more content…
She states that the sphinx and the pyramids are her creation and she also says she walk the Fertile Crescent from ancient times like Mesopotamia and Egypt. Giovanni used religion and science which she incorporates hundred years ago. In stanza two the narrator
In 1972, Giovanni went on a trip to Africa for the first time. She also published this poem the same year with other collections of poem. This could be where Giovanni got her inspiration to make the poem about being in egypt and how they symbolize god's as a superhumans. This could affect how Giovanni could have made the poem.When writing this poem Nikki Giovanni wanted to give something to girls. She wanted young women to know that girls too are wonderful in every way. She thinks that boys have everything that supports them with wonderness. In conclusion, the poem “Ego Tripping” can be symbolize many thing. For example, the writer Nikki Giovanni wrote the poem for women which she showed how they can do more than what they do. She makes the speaker a goddess being above men. Also the poem uses a lot of metaphor referring in