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Modern Poetry Comparison
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Modern Poetry Comparison Over the past few weeks, my class and I have been studying a bank of poems, all of the same theme, they all deal with racist issues in modern life. I have chosen two of these poems to compare, these are, 'The Negro' and 'Prayer of a black boy'. Throughout the coursework I shall be calling 'Prayer of a black boy' Poem 'A', and 'The Negro', poem 'B'. Poem 'A' uses imagery contrasting white and black cultures, lots of words and expressions in the poem underlines the wonder and amazement of the Negro's natural environment, and the barrenness and unproficness of the white man's. I will be disusing these and pointing out the affects they have. Poem 'B' is in 6 clear stanzas but uses imagery of a symbolic and/or historic kind, and so I will also explain the affects this has upon the poem, and although Poem 'A'...
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