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Analysis Of Ego Tripping By Nikki Govanna

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In the poem Ego Tripping by Nikki Govanna. The author explores the idea of a sense of pride. Through her repetition of “I” she is bragging on herself. The rhyme of the poem alludes to African American culture as a sense of Jazz or Blues. Her first person perspective makes it personal which could be seen as cocky. The metaphor “I turned myself into myself and was jesus.” Stating the speaker is too powerful that she is jesus in a sense. The poem alludes to Nefertitiwho is a global beauty icon sculpture and Hannibal who led Carthage to war. The images throughout the poem equivalates her Black beauty and power to the Earth. Another literary device used was a simile ending the poem. “I mean I can fly like a bird in the sky.” By saying like she
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