A song in the front yard by Refiloe https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm by Gwendolyn Brooks en-us 2020-10-27 17:09:44 UTC 2023-04-16 16:07:39 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4dc.png Postmorden theme: Irony RefiloeOfentse https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/866891051 The irony lies in the decision of the child to go into the poor catacombs -it seems paradoxical and it only makes sense when you reason that is is a child that wants to partake in such activities]]> 2020-10-27 17:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/866891051 Postmodern theme: Social Constructivism RefiloeOfentse https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/866965167 Meaning morality and truth do not exist objectively. The poem is about a girl who wants to play in the backyard instead of staying in the front yard. Truth , with its attendant concepts of meaning are morality are constructed by society.]]> 2020-10-27 18:05:52 UTC https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/866965167 Postmodern theme: Intertextuality RefiloeOfentse https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/866968022 In line 4 , the speaker refers to herself as a girl, the word "girl" has a connotation as a younger female.]]> 2020-10-27 18:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/866968022 Postmodern theme: Metafiction RefiloeOfentse https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/866973937 There is a presence of reconstruction. Language is used to organize or construct reality.]]> 2020-10-27 18:07:48 UTC https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/866973937 Question: Identify lines that show that the speaker is demanding and childish RefiloeOfentse https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/867005541 Answer: "I want to go in backyard now and maybe down the alley , to where  the charity children play 
I want a good time today"]]> 2020-10-27 18:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/867005541 Question : Identify and explain one word that a place for the poor RefiloeOfentse https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/867027818 Answer: "Backyard", the author uses the backyard as a place where people hide things , for example, "hungry weeds".]]> 2020-10-27 18:19:26 UTC https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/867027818 Question : Examine how postmodernist literature can be challenging to read because of its varied characteristics RefiloeOfentse https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/867252226 Answer: postmodernist literature is often challenging  to read and subsequently analyze due to not its scope  but also its manipulation of older tropes  and writing techniques. There is an understanding in much postmodernist literature that our own analysis of events is often as real as it is fragmented. The self awareness of postmodernist literature allows for the understanding that we cannot suspend reality , but at the same time we are required to. ]]> 2020-10-27 19:12:32 UTC https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/867252226 Question: How would you describe the poets handling of the theme social constructivism? RefiloeOfentse https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/867350312 Answer : the Impoverished and wealthy lead to very different lifestyles; this poem infers that sometimes having it all is not enough to keep one satisfied]]> 2020-10-27 19:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/refiloeofentse/rxqehzc8cc7x33tm/wish/867350312