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1.7 Poetry Assessment: How Does Communication Change Us?

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1 Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1. Does communication change us?Communication changes us because first of all, if we need help on something, we communicate with each other, and we understand new things. Another reason is that if communication could change the world. Like for instance as a community, communicate with others around the world how trash is harmful and could pollute the world. The third reason is that, communication is important in business. By communicating with others about your business, you can improve and help your own business.2. Provide an example of each poetic device from any of the assigned poems. For each quote, explain the author’s intended meaning. What is the author really saying? (36 points) Figurative …show more content…

In the first stanza, the speaker illustrates how the free bird, or white race, is untroubled. It also shows how the white race has the audacity to own and govern society unjustly. The speaker concludes'' (the free bird) dares to claim the sky". This shows how whites demonstrated discrimination andprejudice toward blacks. Unfortunately, this deplorable conduct was condoned in society.SimilePoem: A SimileQuote:What did we say to each otherthat now we are as the deerwho walk in single filewith heads highwith ears forwardwith eyes watchfulwith hooves always placed on firm groundin whose limbs there is latent flightThe poem seems to describe anargument between two people. From theway it was written, it may be that the way the couple felt was what thepoem is talking about. The way they walk in single file rather thanside by side. They look forward instead ofeach other. This was probably after avery bad argument that left both people feeling bad. They don’t know what they say to each otherand instead ignore each other as if something had come between

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The bird also symbolizes how people go too far with the amount of power they have. The bird has clipped wings, is trapped in a cage, and its feet are tied up, which means that the bird has no escape. The bird has no freedom and has no way to escape, because it cannot walk or run. Since the bird is being abused and has no power, it is traumatized and explains how its life is like a nightmare. In the text, it states, “His shadow shouts on a nightmare scream/his wings are clipped and his feet are tied” (Angelou paragraph 5).

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The hawks experienced true freedom in an unforgiving place and fought death. However death caught up with them and for example Jeffers says, “The lame feet of salvation: at night he remembers freedom and flies in a dream the dawn ruins it.” The dream of freedom is ended for both the hawks. The wings of the hawks represent freedom, the hawks use the wings to fly and Sheriff Bell, “raised one wing and let it fall again.” Both the hawks lived with no fear unlike “communal people”.

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If we look at the time period Dunbar grew up in, there are parallels to be drawn in terms of the poem and his life. The idea of a caged bird, something meant to fly and be free but held captive is similar to what it would have most definitely felt like to grow up during this time as an African American. In fact, Dunbar himself can be viewed as this caged bird, which explains why he knows the things the bird experiences all too well. It would have been extremely hard, even for someone as talented and intelligent as Dunbar to rise up within a community during this time period if they were African American.

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The metaphor of the birds also serves to create a sense of movement and tension within the poem, as the birds engage in a battle of wills that reflects the speaker's own struggle for

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I understood that the speaker was referring to a carefree bird in its youth. The bird metaphor reoccurs throughout the poem and is utilized to describe the transition from youth to adulthood. In the first stanza, there are several references to innocence and childhood. " With drowsy head and

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Throughout the story, the narrator feels powerless about his situation, and he envies birds for their ability to fly and be free. The protagonist says, "I told Mom my theory of why we like birds –– of how birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.” The protagonist of the story uses birds as a metaphor for freedom, escape, and finding nobility in what he views as a harsh world. The protagonist is saying that birds are a symbol of hope and freedom and that they represent a simpler way of life that we should strive to achieve. The narrator expresses his desire to become a bird, as he says, “just make me a bird - that’s all I ever wanted - a white graceful bird free of shame and taint and fear of loneliness.”

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