The poem “Coal” written by Audre Lorde uses figurative language to elaborate on how words are open. Leaving the meanings open to interpretation for the reader. The poem “Harlem” created by Langston Hughes expounds the correlation between between dreams and objects that eventually fade in value. Using rhetorical questions to allow the reader to come to their own conclusion. Understanding the time period of which they’re written helps understand point of view of each poem more vividly. Both pieces of writing use literary devices to in a hyperbolic manner to set a theme.
The central theme of “Harlem“ is to express dreams by relating them to inanimate that through a physical change with the increase of a time duration. Does it stink like rotten meat? Or crust and sugar cover-like a syrupy sweet?”Referring to dreams and hopes. Meat of course can be aged and become tasteful for a certain degree of
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It is a ground of unresolved conflict. Five of the six answers to the opening questions are interrogative rather than declarative sentences. The ‘dream deferred’ is the long- postponed and frustrated dream of African Americans; a dream of freedom, equality, dignity, opportunity and success. This poem concentrates, on possible reaction to the deferral of a dream.
On the other hand “Coal“ by Audre Lorde elaborates moreso on the power of language itself. Using direct metaphors to detail the strength and freedom of expression. “Is the total black, being spoken From the earth’s inside.”, announced by Lorde. This line is us to expound her black skin. “Coal” starts off as one element and changes depending on it’s location and what treatment it is exposed to. It may start off as a worthless chunk of earth, but when the conditions are right, the coal has the possibility of turning into a valuable