In the two poems, “The Road” and “In Response to Executive Order 9066”, each poem is very diverse yet has many similarities. Many topics and themes of these poems are very alike. Even though the themes are similar we can compare and contrast the many ways the author’s Dwight Okita and Hélène Johnson approached the themes of the poems.
Both of these poems have themes about oppression and/or discrimination against the speaker’s races, especially in the poem “In Response to Executive Order 9066”. In the poem it states what’s going on in that time period, innocent Japanese Americans are being forced to concentration camps due to a horrendous incident that happened during that time. In the poem it also doesn’t use stereotypical poetic language. However in “The Road '' it does have a lot of figurative language. In that poem, the narrator/speaker is showing that the scene a.k.a the road she’s looking at reminds her as her “trodden pride” as stated in the text, and speaks up for her people, unfortunately she couldn’t just state blankly what she was trying to convey due to at the time oppression was considered a ‘hush hush topic’ even though it happened all of the time. “In Response To Executive Order 9066” doesn’t have as much imagery in the poem as “The Road '' but it does state that the speaker is a 14 year old girl with a messy room. Unfortunately this
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es not give us much information and thus this poem is more like writing someone a letter of which it is because she, the speaker, is sort of using humor to cope with the situation and convey that she is