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The author uses the word “to” to transfer between Stereotypes  that people associate with his identities.

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The line "And from ‘white man’s burden’ To every man’s burden." This line embodies the treatment he faces as he feels burdened by things he cannot change about himself. This could relate to the title as he feels weighed down by the way society treats him.

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For me, what really stood out was his choice of comparing his cane to a wand. Usually, when someone thinks of a wand, they think of someone who can control magic. However, it turns out that we are the magicians, despite not having the wand to transform him into something. This goes to show that in a situation where he is supposed to have power in what he is seen as, it is taken away by the "magicians" and their derogatory words

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"You are the magicians" shows the idea of what people think of him and how they will treat him based on how he is perceived.

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"a profound metamorphosis" Is what stood out to me the most. Maybe some sort of change is yet to come.

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"My final form is never of my choosing;

I only wield the wand" I took this line to mean that yes we are wielding the wands of our life and choosing what paths we take, but at the end of the day we do not get to choose how others view that, the final form of who you've become.

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"And from ‘white man’s burden’

To every man’s burden."

The title "Weights" is shown throughout the poem, especially in these lines. This person feels like a burden to others, which demonstrates how he feels tied down.

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"You are the magicians"

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"with the flick of my wrist" shows how quickly and unwillingly he can change what he is defined as

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The poem depicts different life experiences Lynn Manning has had throughout his life. I notice he uses the word metamorphosis a lot as if he is changing to each thing individually but these are things being added on. I believe all of these add-ons are the weights and intersectionality depicts the different weights that just one person can hold.

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I liked his last line, as it reminded us that he doesn't do anything to be thought of in any way, it's us/society that do the perceiving.

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This poem brought up a lot of emotions; I felt sad by the end. Knowing that people are not only dealing with their indiidual struggles of everyday life, but they have to also deal with the hateful words of just people passing by making assumptions about them based on their appearance/actions/first impression.

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The line that spoke to me most was when he compared what is deemed by God to what is deemed by man. Whatever God/creator/spirit you believe in, they did not intend for discrimination, that was created by man. Although God made him this way, it was only seen as making him special and unique. But society found a way to make that unique identity negative and cruel.

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"my final form is never of my choosing" This stuck out to me because it is what we were talking about in class, where we do not choose how society perceives us.

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"I only wield the wand/ You are the magicians" really stuck out to me because it really describes something I forget sometimes. That you can be yourself, but society is what decides who you are and how you are perceived.

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"I only wield the wand;

You are the magicians."

This really stood out to me because it made me realize that in reality, it is society choosing what identity someone is that day but it is difficult for them to view people in a lens of the multiple social locations of each person.

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"From... To" One simple cane changed him from the black man and the prejudices around that identity to the blind man.

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I am always struck by the title: "Weights"... what is the weight? What is being carried? Who is being pushed down and why.