Friday, November 6, 2015

Compare
  In the poems "Those winter Sunday" and "My Papa Waltz" they're two fathers that has a little bit in common. In both poem the fathers are very hard worker men . Even though they show love in different ways they are both workers. In "My Papa Waltz"  it states ," The hand that held my wrist Was battered on one knuckle; At every step you missed My right ear scraped a buckle. "That shows his dad may be a blue collar worker , because his hands are battered which he described. In "Those winter Sunday" it says ,"Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blue black cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze." It shows that every Sunday he goes to work no matter how cold it is for his family. 
 
Jaydah B.

Contrast 
    In the poems "Those winter Sunday" and "My Papa Waltz" they're two fathers that show affection in completely different ways. In "Those winter Sunday" the speaker really doesn't understand the way his dad show love to him. His father gets up every Sunday morning to make the house warm , but hes tired from all the hard work he does. his son really doesn't understated why he does this. In the poem it states ,"I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well." That shows that he really didn't understand his dad love but now he does.
   In my "My Papa Waltz" its about a drunk father who is  dancing with his son. Dancing with his son may be his way of showing love to his son , different from "Those winter Sunday" where his son doesn't understand . In the poem its sates ,"You beat time on my head With a palm caked hard by dirt, Then waltzed me off to bed Still clinging to your shirt." Even though the dance might not be all fun for the kid his dad still takes out time to dance with him to sleep.

Thursday, October 15, 2015

   Langston Hughes uses the river as symbol in the poem The Negro Speaks. The poem just illustrates how Black Americans go through trials and tribulations. Throughout the poem it explains him coming from Africa to the Mississippi and  how he was raised . The struggles he had to go through shaped him.  In line one it says ," I heard the signing of the Mississippi" is an example of personification makes the river a singing thing. The singing river demonstrates the emotions of African American People. Singing has always been a way Black Americans express themselves. That line tells that he was brought from Congo to the Mississippi of New Orleans.

Monday, October 12, 2015

On this Africa Project I learned about resources Africa has like coffee, gold , chocolate ETC.