Third Grade was a Breeze

Hey, I was set back by the description of the "Moloch". It is an extremely intense description, he was considered to be one of the generals in the battle against Heaven and he spoke out on the need for an immediate attack, who knew that such a gallant and fiery warrior's name would be used to symbolize this thing: http://www.outback-australia-travel-secrets.com/thorny-devil.html Ha ha, it does exist. It was interesting to see all of this history eluded to in Walker's poem, also it is interesting to see how it is eluded to in other profound literary works as it is an unbelievably strong character in biblical history. However, this is not what i want to talk about in this blog, no, i wish to address Richard Wright's insertion of communist hints in his poems. It is speculated that he is guilty of this subliminal messaging in many of the poems we read for Monday: "I Have Seen Black Hands", "Between the World and Me", and "Red Clay Blues". All of these poems are considered to be protest poems, politically, socially, and culturally. The things we speculated on Monday about the use of the word "red" and its ties to communism are reaffirmed by many scholars on line, thus he is accomplishing myriad things in his poetry: he is pushing the idea that communism will set everyone free of the burdens they carry and that Blacks should consider the conversion, as it would be particularly benefiting for them and their pursuit of equality. If you don't feel that i am speaking the truth please regard this section of "I have Seen Black Hands": "I am black and I have seen black hands/Raised in fists of revolt, side by side with the white fists/Of white workers,/And some day -- and it is only this which sustains me--/Some day there shall be millions and millions of them,/On some red day in a burst of fists on a new horizon!" All of the components of a protest poem are present here, it impossible not to acknowledge the fact. Every line in this section is aggressively set to impose a certain kind of emotion on its reader: Revolution.