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1. I finished the text of my poem on racism and am currently working on the recital, which will take place between April 4th and 7th.

2. The slave trade and the Columbian exchange were two factors that prompted me to write this poem. These were two of the most significant moments in American history. It was the source of racism and how it came to be.

3. Using connotations while describing the snake was one piece of input that aided progress. This is because the snake itself has several meanings. One is that it is a naughty and vicious person, which is how I define the whip and its owners. However, my comment should have been clearer.

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1. Ms. Connon advised me to seek a solution, express to the audience a call to action in my poetry, and link it to ISHCMC and how this poem relates to ISHCMC.

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A snake slithers around my comrade's body
As it tightens around their necks
Their black eyes filled with worry
Is this death or just a test?

The fields of cotton swarm around me
It drifts with a gentle breeze
And suddenly, it forms into a collar
Is this a leash I see?

If white and black are separate,
Then how does one create grey?
Are we indeed so different?
That you are holding the other end of the snake?

Black bodies hanging
On a wooden stick,
As the ropes wrap around my comrade's neck
As our prey neglects our black bodies.

What makes both you and me so different?
Am I that strange?
I ponder this question to myself
And the others that are of the same race.

To end my comrade's suffering,
We must rebel against the devil

And end this segregation
For the new generations

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I will be using several different types of imagery such as visual imagery and auditory imagery.

Visual imagery: Descriptive language that appeals to the sense of sight.

Auditory imagery: Use of language to represent an experience pertaining to sound

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Speaker: I will be writing this poem in first person; this is because it makes things easier to convey to the audience the dangers of racism in human society through the usage of poetic devices. I am going to talk from a perspective of a black person who served as an enslaved person for white people. I am likely going to refer this event to the Columbian exchange.

Color: The words used in the poem are black and white to represent the human hierarchy devised/formed by the human society itself. I will be referring this poem to the Columbian exchange using dark elements and a mysterious and controversial tone to the reader.

Item: Snake to represent a whip, the field of cotton to represent labor, and a collar to mean how the blacks are being dominated.

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Some races are superior and more potent than others, usually seen in politics, economics, and legal institutions. Hence, this is known as discrimination. Discrimination has affected many communities to the point that it even impacts their monthly income, civil rights, education, and other areas.

MLA citation: Smedley, Audrey. "racism." Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 March. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/topic/racism. Accessed 14 March 2023.

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In the poem, I can likely link racism to the past events in US history. I can do this to strengthen my poetry and analysis. Another way to make the poem inspiring is to change my perspective into a victim of a specific event in US history.

Colonial Settlement, the 1600s - 1763.

Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877.

March 14, 1891 New Orleans lynchings

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1. The writing is going well, and things are coming together as ideas for incorporating symbolism into my poems come to mind.

2. Billie Holiday's protest song "The Strange Fruit," in which she employs allegory to discuss segregation in the 1990s, inspired me to write about segregation.

3. The input that helped me move forward was making the snake symbolism more evident as a whip because snakes have multiple implications.

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Mother to Son by Langston Hughes

Well, son, I’ll tell you:

Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

It’s had tacks in it,

And splinters,

And boards torn up,

And places with no carpet on the floor—

Bare.

But all the time

I’se been a-climbin’ on,

And reachin’ landin’s,

And turnin’ corners,

And sometimes goin’ in the dark

Where there ain’t been no light.

So boy, don’t you turn back.

Don’t you set down on the steps

’Cause you finds it’s kinder hard.

Don’t you fall now—

For I’se still goin’, honey,

I’se still climbin’,

And life for me ain’t been no crystal stair.

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In certain countries like the US, much of their hierarchy is based on race (black or white). Thus, they would have distant communities that revolve around their race. These communities would then turn into the stereotypical preferences we know today.

The way human society operates today differs from how it used to operate long ago. Now, humans would adequately judge other people based on their race and power and make absurd assumptions about their income and many more because of race.

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For those who don't know what racism is, it is a group of people being divided into exclusive biological entities known as race. This term of language has been applied in certain situations in our world.

MLA citation: Smedley, Audrey. "racism." Encyclopedia Britannica, 9 March. 2023, https://www.britannica.com/topic/racism. Accessed 14 March 2023.

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Use the F.L.I.R.T analysis (poetry analysis)

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Use the F.L.I.R.T analysis (poetry analysis)

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Form/Structure
Language
Imagery
Rhyme/rhythm
Themes/Tone/Title