My favorite nice quotes

I am  (L)ucky

t (o)

Ha(v)e

A fri(e)nd

(Anonymous)

BE NICE

OR

LEAVE

-THANK YOU

(Anonymous)

          It’s nice to be important, but

it’s more 

important to 

be

Nice!

                (Anonymous)

         

        Everything will be okay

in the end.

if it’s not okay,

it’s not the end.

(Anonymous)

I am Negro- A poem analysis

Negro by 

Hughes Langston

I am a Negro: 

Black as the night is black,  Black like the depths of my Africa.

I’ve been a slave: 

Caesar told me to keep his door-steps clean.  I brushed the boots of Washington.

I’ve been a worker: 

Under my hand the pyramids arose.  I made mortar for the Woolworth Building.

I’ve been a singer: 

All the way from Africa to Georgia  I carried my sorrow songs.  I made ragtime.

I’ve been a victim: 

The Belgians cut off my hands in the Congo.  They lynch me now in Texas

I am a Negro: 

Black as the night is black,  Black like the depths of my Africa. 

Poetry Analysis

Analyzed by Rudi Brata

Title : Negro

          Hughes Langston

Introduction : 

This poem tells about the history of african american people from the past to the present. The speaker is an african american man who tells the activity and the treatment of the black community in the early 20th century until now. The tone of this poem is proud, sad, disappointed.

Body

Stanza 1:

The speaker begins with telling his identity. He says that he is a Negro. This reflects that the speaker wants to declare about himself and his people community. He describes that the skin color of african american people is black and their origin is from Africa. 

Stanza 2:

The speaker describes the history of african american people who have been a slave since the time of Julius Caesar. And their job was not a noble one, because many of them at that time worked as boots cleaners in Washington DC.

Stanza 3:

In this stanza, the speaker tries to explain the black people achievements through their works. Even though they were slaves, They were proud to be able to build pyramids in Egypt. And they are also proud for their skills and strength to build Woolworth Building.

Stanza 4:

The poem tells about the history of  african american music. It is originated from africa. They created ragtime music which is now becoming Jazz music. The speaker emphasizes that black people have contributed a lot in this music history while at the same time they faced hardships or difficult time in that era. Because the speaker says “All the way from Africa to Georgia I carried my sorrow songs.” 

Stanza 5:

This poem depicts that black people are sometimes unlucky. Because they often become victims in their community. They are treated unfairly. This may be caused by racism. And even this happens since the past until the present.

Stanza 6:

In the last stanza, The speaker rephrases the first stanza. This means that he emphasizes about what has happened to black people history. Even though their hardship is lighter from year to year because of modernization but sometimes they still get unfair treatment in their community until now.

Conclusion:

The speaker of the the poem speaks about the history of african american people from the past to the present. They are proud through their contribution in in a kind of their strong body and their musical ability . On the other hands, they are sometimes sad and disappointed with the treatment in their community because of racism. And this happens until now.

The poem: "What Are Years" - by Marianne Moore (an analysis)

What are years?

by Marianne Moore

What is our innocence,

what is our guilt? All are

naked, none is safe. And whence

is courage: the unanswered question,

the resolute doubt, -

dumbly calling, deafly listening-that

in misfortune, even death,

encourage others

and in it's defeat, stirs

the soul to be strong? He 

sees deep and is glad, who

accedes to mortality

and in his imprisonment rises

upon himself as 

the sea in a chasm, struggling to be

free and unable to be,

in its surrendering

finds its continuing.

So he who strongly feels,

behaves. The very bird,

grown taller as he sings, steels

his form straight up. Though he is captive,

his mighty singing

says, satisfaction is a lowly

thing, how pure a thing is joy.

This is mortality,

this is eternity.

A POEM ANALYSIS

Analyzed by Rudi Brata

Title : What are years?

By MARIANNE MOORE

The speaker in this poem is someone who confesses or admits that every human has his or her strengths and weaknesses. The speaker also tells that only the God Almighty who knows who we are and what we are. Because we as human have limitations.  

The central purpose of this poem is to tell the readers that we as human should realize that nobody is perfect. Every human is sometimes uncertain and has a limitation in the course of his or her life. However, we have to face and take gladly and thankfully for what the God has given to us even though we have some constraints. This poem gives a message to us that we are only as small as dust in the eyes of the God. We as human just do the best we can and enjoy the life. However our life, fate, luck are determined by the God. Therefore, we have to be wise, respectful, kind, humble to each other, we don’t have to be arrogant among us. For that reasons, we have to surrender ourselves to the God.  

There are four imageries in this poem. They are: auditory, visual, organic and kinesthetic. In the first stanza there are some words such as “guilt”, “innocence”, “courage”, “doubt” and the phrase “none is safe” are categorized as internal sensation or organic imagery. Because those words refer to the feeling from the heart of a person who feels that way. The words “death” and “naked” are considered as visual imagery because they give pictures of the state of someone’s condition. The phrase “dumbly calling” and the word “stirs” are a kind of movement or kinesthetic imagery because to call someone and to stir something need the movement from the parts of our body. However, the phrase “deafly listening” is categorized as sound or auditory imagery because someone can listen to something that produces sound. In the second stanza, the sentences “the soul to be strong”, “struggling to be free and unable to be” and the word “glad” are categorized as internal sensation or organic imagery. Because they reflect the feeling in someone’s heart. The sentences “He sees deep” and “the sea in a chasm” are categorized as visual imagery because the sentence “he sees deep” means that person uses his/her eyes to see something deeply. And the sentence “the sea in a chasm” depicts a kind of sea located in a long narrow opening on earth. However, the sentence “struggling to be free” is also categorized as kinesthetic imagery because it can also describe the activity that needs the movement of the person’s body. In the third stanza, the sentence “The very bird, grown taller as he sings” is a kind of visual imagery because it pictures something that is growing from small when it’s young to big when it’s old. The sentences “he who strongly feels”, “satisfaction is a lowly thing” and “how pure is joy” are categorized as internal sensation or organic imagery. Because they tell about someone’s feeling about his or her satisfaction and joy in his or her life. The phrases “grown taller as he sings”, “his mighty singing says” and “steels his form straight up” and the word “behaves”  are categorized as kinesthetic imagery. Because the activities of singing and growing need movement.

There are three symbols in this poem. They are metaphors, simile and allusions. The metaphor symbol refers to the statement, for example, “The very bird, grown taller as he sings, steels his form straight up. Though he is captive”. Because the statement implies that grown-up people face challenges when they live their own life. Then, the examples of simile symbol is from the sentence “The sea in a chasm”. This sentence implies that every human has his or her limitation because nobody’s perfect. And the last is the examples of allusion symbol are from the words such as “innocence”, “captive” and “imprisonment.” These words represents the experience of humans or people in their stages of life from childhood until adulthood. We as humans will experience and face those feelings in our life.

To The Mercy Killers - The Analysis

TO THE MERCY KILLERS  -Dudley Randall-

If ever mercy move you murder me,

I pray you, kindly killers, let me live.

Never conspire with death to set me free,

but let me know such life as pain can give.

Even though I be a clot, an aching clench,

a stub, a stump, a butt, a scap, a knob,

a screaming pain, a putrefying stench,

still let me live, so long as life shall throb.

Even though I seem not human, a mute shelf

of glucose, bottled blood, machinery

to swell the lung and pump the heart—even so,

do not put out my life. Let me still glow.

-Dudley Randall-

A POEM ANALYSIS

Analyzed By Rudi Brata

Title : To The Mercy Killers

By DUDLEY RANDALL

The speaker in this poem is someone who suffers from a disease that can not be cured for a long time but he or she still wants to be alive. However, the speaker is afraid of being a victim of euthanasia. Therefore, the speaker disagrees with the mercy killing or euthanasia to be performed on him or her. Because he or she thinks that it is against the God’s will.  

The central purpose of this poem is to tell the readers that the life and death of human are determined by the God not by someone. The speaker says that life is too precious for him or her even though he or she has a very bad disease. Therefore, the speaker rejects when the someone or the doctor wants to plea a kind of mercy killing or euthanasia to him or her in order to end his or her misery because of the disease he or she has. 

There are five imageries in this poem. They are: auditory, olfactory, visual, organic and kinesthetic. In the first stanza there are some words such as “ throb”, “pain” and the phrase “ set me free” , “to swell the lungs and pump the heart” are categorized as internal sensation or organic imagery. Because those words refer to the feeling from the heart of a person who feels that way. The phrases “a clot”, “an aching clench”, “a stub”, “a stump”, “a butt”, “a scab”, “a knob”, a mute shelf of glucose, “bottled blood” , “kindly killers”, “let me still glow” and the word “machinery” are considered as visual imagery because they give pictures of the state of someone’s condition and the situation in a room. The sentence “If ever mercy move you murder me”, “as long as life shall throb”, “ as beg to die”, “to swell the lungs and pump the heart”,  the phrase “a screaming pain”, “an aching clench”, and the word “pray” are a kind of movement or kinesthetic imagery because those activities need some movements from the parts of our body. However, the phrase “ a screaming pain”, “ as long as life shall throb”, “to swell the lungs and pump the heart” and the word “pray” are categorized as sound or auditory imagery because screaming, praying. throbbing , swelling the lung and pumping the heart can produce sound. The phrase “a putrefying stench” is categorized as sound or smell or olfactory imagery because it describe a very unpleasant smell of a rotten body.

There are two symbols in this poem. They are metaphors and irony. The metaphor symbol refers to the statement,  Then, the phrase “Never conspire with death to set me free”. This statement means that although the speaker’s life has been painful and miserable, he or she doesn’t want to get euthanasia to set him or her free from the misery. After that, the sentences “Even though I be a clot, an aching clench, a stub, a stump, a butt, a scab, a knob, a screaming pain, a putrefying stench, still let me live, so long as life shall throb. Because this portrays the conditions of that sick person that  seem incurable. Then, the examples of irony symbol is from the sentences for example, “ Let me still glow ”. Because this is the ironic statement implying that the speaker still wants to be alive despite his or her hardships and painful misery because of the bad disease he or she has. And the opening of the poem is characterized by a curious ironic choice of words such as“ If ever mercy move you murder me, I pray you, kindly killers, let me live.” These are ironic choices of words because even though the speaker is dying with the incurable disease he or she has, the speaker still hopes and prays in order to let him or her live longer.