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Very good job Chris! Your poem was very good. I really liked the way you symbolized dead blacks hanging on trees with apples hanging on trees, that was very creative and smart.
Really nice poem! I like how you used an analogy similar to that of Billie Holliday's, but you made it unique and very much your own. The part where you compared the way a white man looks at the situation and a black man looked at the situation was very powerful. I also like the last part, where it seems you took on the thinking of a black man in those times. I never thought that perhaps many did fear that they were soon going to be a completely extinct and forgotten race. Thanks for sharing this poem! It was really nicely written!
Nice job Chris. I liked how you incorporated the metaphor that was in that song about how hanging blacks were seen as fruit. At the end I liked how you continued the metaphor by saying, "until there are no more apples in the world".It was very well thought out and a great poem!
That was great Chris! I really liked how you sort of modeled your poem off of Strange Fruits! You were very poetic in your writing, and there was a tremendous amount of symbolism. This is a really amazing poem, and the end probably hit me the most, when you made it clear that there was a possibility that blacks would become an extinct race. Great job!
Very good job Chris! Your poem was very good. I really liked the way you symbolized dead blacks hanging on trees with apples hanging on trees, that was very creative and smart.
ReplyDeleteReally nice poem! I like how you used an analogy similar to that of Billie Holliday's, but you made it unique and very much your own. The part where you compared the way a white man looks at the situation and a black man looked at the situation was very powerful. I also like the last part, where it seems you took on the thinking of a black man in those times. I never thought that perhaps many did fear that they were soon going to be a completely extinct and forgotten race. Thanks for sharing this poem! It was really nicely written!
ReplyDeleteNice job Chris. I liked how you incorporated the metaphor that was in that song about how hanging blacks were seen as fruit. At the end I liked how you continued the metaphor by saying, "until there are no more apples in the world".It was very well thought out and a great poem!
ReplyDeleteThat was great Chris! I really liked how you sort of modeled your poem off of Strange Fruits! You were very poetic in your writing, and there was a tremendous amount of symbolism. This is a really amazing poem, and the end probably hit me the most, when you made it clear that there was a possibility that blacks would become an extinct race. Great job!
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