the swelling song of the plants as they ripened

under the groans of the labourers whose

children were made to dance under stinging whips.

and the prisoners marched, dancing as they

went into a little hut where all the free

people were herded and locked up like cattle. I thinks this is the most important line because it means they were in jail.

The significance of this title is about the citizens are arrested or in prison.

2. In ten words or less tell me what this poem is about.

This poem is about citizens.

3. What are the most important lines of the poem? And why?

"They crossed their hearts for peace as they passed mothers weeping inside their heart" I think this is the important line of the poem because they were expressing their feelings.

we heard the story of our hard-earned freedom

repeated daily, hourly by the minute till our ears

gradually grew deaf and our sight impaired

by the daily flow of blood which the sun wept

and sought the cloth of the winds to dry it.

 
I believe this is important because it is talking about there hard earned freedom.

with apologies for the inconvenience,

they carefully wrapped barbed wire

round the wrists of the political prisoners

who, as if in a ritual stretched

their arms out to the young masters.

This line is important because it tells how people are wrongly imprisoned.

hustler for loose change, loosies

and a lil loose kim. This is my favorite line because he was a brooklyn hustler.

Neither b.i.g. nor smalls

just voletta’s son

prepped to die: gunsmoke gunsmoke

one hell of a hunch

here you lie a boy

twelve gauge to your brain you can’t

have what you want be

gave us word for word for naught

can’t fault the hustle

knockoff messiah

slanged cracked commandments, saw no

honey, more problems

a still black borough

recoiled, mourned true genius slain

the ease of your laugh

gave us word for word for naught

can’t fault the hustle

Because it just hitsme

no need to discuss that now

that your weight is dust

I like this lines because it is nice to read it.

that its about a free country.

In ten words or less tell me what this poem is about. its about freedom

What are the most important lines of the poem? And why? freedommmmmmmmmm

and the prisoners marched, dancing as they

went into a little hut where all the free

people were herded and locked up like cattle. this means they are in jail.

with apologies for the inconvenience,

they carefully wrapped barbed wire

round the wrists of the political prisoners

who, as if in a ritual stretched

their arms out to the young masters." I think these are the most important lines in the poem because I think it says that even when they did nothing wrong they still framed them and would give them more pain than anyone else.

THe significant of the title is prison and arresting people

In ten words or less tell me what this poem is about.In 10 words this poem is about inequality.

What are the most important lines of the poem? And why? (Please copy and paste them before explaining why you think they are the most important.They are explaining abuot inequality.

The significance of the title is about how it is a free country but some people don't have freedom.

The poem is about slavery in the recent years. 

I think the most important lines of the poem are "We heard the story of our hard-earned freedom repeated daily, hourly by the minute till our ears gradually grew deaf and our sight impaired." I think these are the most important lines because of what it says because they had to listen to their achievements over and over again.

with apologies for the inconvenience,

they carefully wrapped barbed wire

round the wrists of the political prisoners

who, as if in a ritual stretched

their arms out to the young masters."
This line is important because the poem is basically describing how these slavery people were treated and how they basically punishing them.

the rest of the borough flails

weak about itself"

This probably had to be my favorite line because its basically talking about someone describing it and saying this person is not weak in my opinion.

This poem is about

2. In ten words or less tell me what this poem is about.

3. What are your favorite lines from this poem and why?

n.y.p.d. stopped searching

shrugged off negro death

well, we scour the sky

we mourn tough, recite harder

chant you live again

of all the lyrics

the realest premonition

rings true: you’re dead. Wrong"  
I like this lines because it shows that even when the hardest things happen like death, you mourn and chant the name, are they dead, no, they are here with spirit and memories