Emotion, it’s the one thing in this world that gives us meaning. A twinge of hope, a slight smile at a happy thought or tears caused by a loss, it is all connected. The connection its self has caused people to dedicate their lives to finding out why exactly humans feel so deeply; and why we feel for one another. Some people let their emotions control them while others use them as a guide to find true purpose. Then there are others who feel so much or so little they use it as a creative outlet to bring the rest of us to light. Poetry is one of those forms, when you read a poem you might not fully understand it at first but you feel it. For some godly reason as humans we don’t need to understand the meaning as long as it makes us feel;
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When looking at a poem by Natasha Trethewey titled “White Lies” you are transported back into another time where you can see the emotions of a tattered past and how the memories still affect her …show more content…
No one in their right mind would deliberately hurt or treat a child negatively, but back in the 60s most black adults experienced racism directly growing up in that environment also has a toll on a child. They might not understand what is happening to them as illustrated in the poem they just believe it’s better to be white. What is sad though is that those ideas are not just coming to them they are being presented to them through the outside world. No one is born with hate, they are taught to hate whether it be other or themselves. There is no set rhyme scheme in the poem instead it is just free verse. However there are lines in the first and last stanza that rhyme. The way the author also uses colors to build imagery is something beautiful in a weird sense. She doesn’t just talk about the black and white she talks about other colors almost in a sense to say that all colors are the same no matter the name, or shade. People tend to believe that the world is only black and white but they forget to dance in the rainbow of life and everything god gives us. In psychology in college you may learn about a research study called the clark doll experiment. The procedures of this experiment were quite simple they took a set amount of African American children and set them up at a table, they were
When looking at a poem by Natasha Trethewey titled “White Lies” you are transported back into another time where you can see the emotions of a tattered past and how the memories still affect her …show more content…
No one in their right mind would deliberately hurt or treat a child negatively, but back in the 60s most black adults experienced racism directly growing up in that environment also has a toll on a child. They might not understand what is happening to them as illustrated in the poem they just believe it’s better to be white. What is sad though is that those ideas are not just coming to them they are being presented to them through the outside world. No one is born with hate, they are taught to hate whether it be other or themselves. There is no set rhyme scheme in the poem instead it is just free verse. However there are lines in the first and last stanza that rhyme. The way the author also uses colors to build imagery is something beautiful in a weird sense. She doesn’t just talk about the black and white she talks about other colors almost in a sense to say that all colors are the same no matter the name, or shade. People tend to believe that the world is only black and white but they forget to dance in the rainbow of life and everything god gives us. In psychology in college you may learn about a research study called the clark doll experiment. The procedures of this experiment were quite simple they took a set amount of African American children and set them up at a table, they were