We talked briefly last class about how the subject matter for the poetry we are reading has shifted slightly, focusing more on black power and black beauty. In reading the poems for today, I would say that the style has also shifted again. The poetry has become more creative, dramatic and jolting in its composition. World play gives the poems a list-like feel, but also conveys a different emotion in their reading, that I’m not sure I place or completely understand, but that I do think asks to read differently. I wonder how everyone else will respond to this type of writing. What do you interpret from this style choice? Why do you think they wrote this way?
In reference to the essays by Ken McClane, I was struck by the final questions of “The School” in which he was unsure whether his education actually benefited him or not. I think the questions in both essays ask a lot about society, human nature, and present such vivid pictures of his experiences that they only help contribute to our understanding of what these experience would be like. I found both essays extremely helpful, as they are much easier for me to digest than poetry, but also because they illustrated some of the key topic areas of the poetry we are reading. It would be interesting to see if any of his experiences in school or jail would be different if they were today?
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