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In Li- Young Lee's Poem "A Hymn to Childhood" he was talking about a young child went through living with fear on a war. Also, trying to send us a message that it is possible to look on the bright side, even in the most terrible conditions.

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In Claude McKay's poem "The City's Love", the author was living in a time in society when people of color were looked down upon. He's basically describing a moment in his life where he wasn't judged based on the color of his skin. In the poem it reads "Oblivious of the color of my skin, forgetting that I was an alien guest...". This proves that he believes that this is the city's way of showing him "love". I can infer that the majority of the places that the author has lived in he probably didn't experience much acceptance.

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In Maya Angelou's, The Black Family Pledge The year 2017 seems to be a long way from the treacherous slavery days that my ancestors had to encounter. Being that my history of African dominant  has partially been lost due to the racial disparity that has clouded a true sense of who I am. In 2017, I believe that slavery still exists. Not in forms of the physical torture, and chains, as well as the pain. I am referring to the mental and spiritual forms of slavery that still exists today. Suppression of a whole race is nothing uncommon in humanity. Also, it is not new or limited to a single ethnic background. As Maya Angelou agrees in this expressive poem, “The Black Family Pledge” she writes down in poetry my thoughts about not knowing (Understanding) my heritage.

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In Laura Kasischke's poem, "The Time Machine", the poet feels sorry for arguing with her mom over what she should do in life.

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In the poem, Jellyfish, the poet is talking about how a jellyfish enters their life and just leaves her in the dust.  Reminds me of people

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In Craig Santos Perez's poem Care, he is thinking about the refugee crisis in Syria as he is comforting his daughter. He is also hoping that the nations involved would be more considerate in helping those escaping the conflict, without being so careless. According to the text, he wants people to have more compassion towards others, until the only difference would be the amount of care a person gives.
At this time, refugees and their families go through a harsh migration for a better life.

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in Juan Felipe Herrera's poem "Poem by Poem"  He  speaks about the  9 killed at church in Charleston, SC and how we need to work together to stop violence and violent crimes. Although he was born in the U.S. he had family that were killed in violent crimes.

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Jericho Brown published his book, "A New Testament" in 2014. In this time he was working at colleges like Emory University. Through his work as a professor, and an already renowned poet, he got to experience, travel and meet new people. This served as his primary inspiration.

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In Herman de Coninck's poem, "Mother", he explains poetry and how it dwells on the inside of you over a period of time. He wrote all his poems in Dutch, which were hard to translate. But around the time that he wrote this poem, he had found peace of mind (after the death of his wife) so he continued to write about love and family.

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"This Morning I Pray for my Enemies" was written by Joy Harjo in 1951. During this time a lot of minorities via Native Americans, were discriminated against socially. Along with being a women; gender roles and what not; definitely added to the passion of her poems. You can see this especially in her work "This Morning I Pray for my Enemies" as it portrays lose and betrayal.

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The speaker of Ocean Vuong's poem Kissing in Vietnamese uses his grandmother as a medium to write about the traumatic events witnessed during the Vietnam War, which ended only a few years before Ocean Vuong was born. He uses imagery such as "your torso would dance from exit wounds" to describe the movements of your body from bullets that have been discharged from the guns of soldiers. Additionally, he includes the line "flames are making their way back through the intricacies of a young boy’s thigh" to share his grandmother's memories of a fire slowly engulfing a young boy, which alludes to the deterioration of Vietnam, which crumbled as people continued to die of unnatural causes.

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In Timika Burton poem , "A message to the love of my life" She calmly writes about her husband explaining how much she loves and cares for him. Also explaining how big of a impact he is to her , in the poem " A message to my love life"
She states "Although you're shell is the most gorgeous of any that
I have seen, it is your heart that has captured
My attention. "
This to me means that her husband means so much to her.

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In Oscar Gonzalez's poem, We All Return to the Place Where We Were Born, the author was experiencing a transition from one place to another after having immigrated from Honduras to the U.S. for a chance to get an education. The author speaks of the memory of his old home and the difficulty of having to adapt to a new life, feeling uncomfortable and unable to fit in.

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In John Yau poem Music from Childhood, people where being to move to the United State. He had to learn two languages at once and did not fit in school. Music was a safe place for him.

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In Langston Hughes poem Cross segregation is going on but the author has no idea how to feel being that he is neither white nor black, and because his father ¨white¨ died in a big house and his mother ¨black¨ in a small shack.

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In Jack In The Pulpit, the author uses her childhood curiosity to reminisce on memories in the forest by her old home.

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In Marilyn Nelson's poem, A Miracle in the Collection plate, the author was living in a time period when the U.S. Fugitive Slave Law was passed, which made any federal marshal or other official who did not arrest an alleged runaway slave liable to a fine of $1,000. The poem states that "Without a goodbye,
James was handcuffed, and shoved on a steamboat
to Baltimore, to be sold—legally!" Law enforcement officials everywhere now had a duty to arrest anyone suspected of being a runaway slave on no more evidence than a claimant’s sworn testimony of ownership. This law led to many free blacks being conscripted into slavery, as they had no rights in court and could not defend themselves against accusations.

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In I am the whole defense by Mai Der Vang she had grandparents who suffered through times of struggle and it motivated her in her poems.

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In Langston Hughes poem Mother to Son, the speaker was facing .....