The End And The Beginning By Jimmy Santiago Baca

While Many people believe that words don't matter, and what they say doesn't and won't affect people in the future, Words have very large effects on everyone and everything around us. They can make emotions change, they can make the world around us listen, and it is something that is natural to the average human, and it is something that mostly everyone can do; Everyone can talk, and everyone can listen. While not every single word said will be heard, voices can be made heard one way or another. It isn’t easy, but if the work is done and done right, it will happen. Words can be used to teach lessons. In the poem Who Understands Me but Me by Jimmy Santiago Baca, the author uses his words to teach lessons. When Santiago was 21, he was illiterate and was in prison for drug charges. But he used his time there to teach himself how to read and write, and when he got out of jail, he wrote this poem to teach others about his experiences growing up as a young adult in prison. The author is giving

In the poem The End and the Beginning by Wisława Szymborska, the author uses her words to bring attention to what happened after WWII, and emphasize the importance of this war. While the war was very destructive and negative, it also had some positive bits. Throughout the poem, Szymborska is writing this in a very gloomy and depressive tone, but at the very end it seems to change. “In the grass that has overgrown causes and effects, someone must be stretched out blade of grass in his mouth gazing at the clouds.(Szymborska 43)” She is talking about a very serious topic and its effects on society, but she ends with this seemingly positive and happy picture. She is hinting that there will always be a later time where things will be happier. Szymborska’s words don’t only bring this past event to attention, but they also show the deep feelings and meanings behind this