Analysis Of The Poem 'Go Down Moses'

"A Woman Called Moses" is more about Tubman 's feelings. It shows how she fought and escaped slavery. It explains how she felt about escape, and how she wanted it for everyone else. That was her motivation to work for the Underground Railroad. From this, she helped save 75,000 slaves, and personally saved over 200 slaves.

Throughout the years, slaves have encountered seasons of agony as slave owners exhibit inhumane behavior resulting in the manslaughter of numerous slaves. On a treacherous flight towards freedom, slaves like Nat Turner and Harriet Tubman have retreated from brutality, in order to take a stand against

In the poem “A Story” by Li- Young Lee, the audience is introduced to the intricate relationship between the father and the son. There is an obvious internal conflict ongoing within the father’s thoughts; the father desperately wants to tell his son a story but cannot come up with one. The author highlights the altering views held by the father and the son through the use of shifting points of view and the intended structure. These two devices adeptly establish the poem’s profundity and intensity of emotions; moreover, it brings light to a common battle that evolving filial relations face against time; as innocence eventuates into maturity, parents inevitably feel helpless and nostalgic.

Is the abandonment of those you love worth the liberation of freedom and responsibility? The liberty to return home and leave behind obligation has its appeal. But, are these tasteless temptations worth deserting your posterity? In Song of Solomon, a young and wealthy African-American, the son of a greedy landlord, goes on a quest in search of his ancestral roots, which first began as a search for family gold. Milkman sets out to Shalimar, Virginia and learns about the “flight” of his great-grandfather, Solomon, who abandoned his family to fly back to Africa and escape slavery. During his expedition, Milkman witness’ the freedom of learning about familial roots through the “flights” of Solomon, Pilate, his aunt, and in the end, learns how to

The poem “A Story” by Li-Young Lee depicts the complex relationship between a boy and his father when the boy asks his father for a story and he can’t come up with one. When you’re a parent your main focus is to make your child happy and to meet all the expectations your child meets. When you come to realize a certain expectation can’t satisfy the person you love your reaction should automatically be to question what would happen if you never end up satisfying them. When the father does this he realizes the outcome isn’t what he’d hope for. He then finally realizes that he still has time to meet that expectation and he isn’t being rushed. Through shifting points of view, a purposeful structure, and settle choices in diction the author adds

She said that she would rely on the fact that Saturday would be an ideal day to escape because the masters would notice it on Sunday, but they would have to wait until Monday to have officials investigate the problem. Harriet disguised herself so that nobody would know that “Moses” was in town due to the Fugitive Slave Law. Then, she sang the forbidden spiritual song “Go down Moses” to announce her arrival. When she was traveling to the South on the train, no one caught her even though she was a worthy fugitive because she relied on the fact that slaves would not go in the opposite direction from the North to the South. When Harriet comes to help her parents escape from slavery, Harriet disguised herself so well that her old master, Doc Thompson, couldn’t recognize Harriet.(187) In one of many of her trips down to “Egypt-land”, she would drug the babies that came with the fugitives with opium just so that the babies won’t make a sound when they were traveling at night.(204) Her dexterity evinces the fact that although she was illiterate, she still had the competence to take advantage of her opponent’s

The short “At David’s Grave,” by Denise Levertov talks about a deceased loved one that is with them while being at the cemetery. David is around them in the “open field, in sunlight, among the few trees,” (Levertov). He is only there because they are there with him, and whenever they leave he is with them, going with them as the good things that come. To live their lives with happiness and the joy that comes with living life each day. They know that he is never alone at the cemetery, never laying in the field filled with cold graves.

How would you feel if someone could control what you were thinking? In “The Feed” written by M.T Anderson, everyone living in the community had a feed in their brain that was controlled by one large organization. Violet, the main character, suffers through a malfunction in her feed that changes the way she sees her society. Most people’s opinions can be changed when they have experienced the benefits and the disadvantages of something. Since Violet is aware of how life is with and without the feed, she becomes hesitant to believing that her community is being run efficiently. She realizes how her feed affects everything she does and how without it, she would be incapable. Based on her experiences, thoughts, and actions, I can infer that Violet

In the history of the United States, slavery was and is considered one of the most inexcusable

The poem A Step Away From Them by Frank O’Hara has five stanzas written in a free verse format with no distinguishable rhyme scheme or meter. The poem uses the following asymmetrical line structure “14-10-9-13-3” while using poetic devices such as enjambment, imagery, and allusion to create each stanza.

“On the Subway,” written by Sharon Olds, is written from the perspective of what is presumed to be an upper class white woman, who finds herself on a subway with a lower class black boy. In “On the Subway”, Olds focuses on the controversial issue of racial conflict, and the theme of White v. Black. She does so by use of contrast between whites and blacks, by using harsh enjambments, powerful imagery, and by using the tone to convey the purpose.

Harriet Tubman’s early life and childhood was full of hatred, beatings, and dealing with slavery...

At the start of Tubman’s fight for freedom, she helped slaves escape slavery. She made nineteen trips back to the South to help guide slaves to freedom as a conductor on the underground railroad. Harriet Tubman helped nearly 300 slaves escape to freedom. (Source 3) Tubman knew the dangers of returning to the South every time she went to free slaves but repeatedly put herself in danger. She felt that no matter the risk, her people deserved to be free. Promises of emancipation were betrayed in 1863. This lead Harriet Tubman to go back to the front lines as a soldier in the war against poverty and inequality. (Source 5) Harriet Tubman chose to go and fight for what she saw was right just as she did to free the slaves. Tubman wasn’t afraid to fight for people’s equality. Something that would change the country for the better. During the American Civil War, Harriet Tubman guided troops through Southern territory. She took up this job because she knew the the area much more better than the Northern troops coming to fight the war. Once again, Harriet Tubman put herself in danger to help fight for equality of all people as well as the rights for slaves. Tubman wanted to help make everyone equal to each other, so she helped those who were on her

“Nobody likes you.” “Everybody hates you.” “ Just do it all ready.” Every night those words would slice through my thoughts like sharp knives slicing through my brain. Every day when I got home from school, I would sit in my closet with a razor blade in my hand and my wrist facing up. “Just do it.” “It’s not like you have any friends or anyone who would miss you.” I felt like I was falling down a bottomless pit, and there was nobody there to save me. When I would go to school the next morning, people in the hall would walk into me as if I was a ghost. I felt like I was completely invisible. Not even teachers noticed me.