Sojourner Truth and Lucille Clifton, a powerful public speaker and a powerful African-American poet, both use the power of words to promote change. The pieces given from Sojourner Truth famously advocated women's rights and denounced slavery. The fundamentals of Lucille Clifton's pieces relate openly to slavery, her family, strong women and her heritage. Both these women use the effectiveness of speaking and writing to try and expose the exposition of social injustice and the inequality between the genders. Truth's famous speech, “Ain’t I a Woman?” and Clifton's poem, “at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989,” exemplify the rhetorical and poetic devices that it takes to create social change within poetry.
Initially, “Ain’t I a Woman?” and “at the cemetery, walnut grove plantation, south carolina, 1989,” relate similarly through many aspects. There's resemblance seen through the diction and theme of these pieces. Truth mastered the art of public speaking. She was an orator, and orators, like poets, use diction and the sounds of their words as their meanings to present important ideas. Clifton mastered the art of using her words and writing them as poems to present
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Without a doubt, words can and do create change. Both of the women that have been compared and contrasted in this essay felt a sense of obligation to use literature as an instrument to promote change. Words create change when people respond to them. African-American literature is read and reacted to. These types of The influences through poetry and oration are different on each and every person. The effectiveness mainly comes from just having people the importance of recognizing what happened during this time period and how it is essential to know the past so that it will not happen again in the