We Are Virginia Tech Poem Analysis

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Monday, April 7th, 2007 the day 30 plus people died and hundreds of students and staff mourned. Just the day after, all Virginia Tech’s students and staff gathered together to hear comforting words about the recurring question of “What will Virginia Tech do next”. The ‘We are Virginia Tech” poem was written by Nikki Giovanni, who was a teacher of Seung-Hui Cho (The perpetrator) and many other students of VTech. Nikki made this poem in a matter of 12 hours and read it aloud the day after the incident, the incident being the motivation for the poem. Nikki Giovanni writes this poem to address the question that also comforts and gives VTech staff and students hope for the future of VTech. Giovanni says “We are Virginia Tech” many times in this