TIMe period: 1940-1960
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For Malcolm x
By: Margaret Walker
Situation: The poem is not a narrative. It expresses sorrow over the loss of Malcolm X.
Voice: The speaker is not identifies. He/She is speaking to whoever will listen.
"All you violated ones wit gentle hearts; you violent dreamers...".
They speak to people who are hurting from the wounds of racial injustice. The speakers that's talking is nostalgic towards the subject.
Form: Does not correlate to the content. Free form poem.
Movement: It changes from a charge to people to a eulogy of sorts.
Syntax: Sentences are complicated
Title: Relates to who the poem is about~ For Malcolm X
Diction: Language is formal. Allusions to purity: 'A snow-white Moslem", "swan"
These symbols make Malcolm X seem even more precious to the reader,
Rhyme Scheme: Irregular
The poem makes the reader think seriouusly about the life and principles of Malcolm X. It laments him as a man who had the interest of his people at heart always.
Situation: The poem is not a narrative. It expresses sorrow over the loss of Malcolm X.
Voice: The speaker is not identifies. He/She is speaking to whoever will listen.
"All you violated ones wit gentle hearts; you violent dreamers...".
They speak to people who are hurting from the wounds of racial injustice. The speakers that's talking is nostalgic towards the subject.
Form: Does not correlate to the content. Free form poem.
Movement: It changes from a charge to people to a eulogy of sorts.
Syntax: Sentences are complicated
Title: Relates to who the poem is about~ For Malcolm X
Diction: Language is formal. Allusions to purity: 'A snow-white Moslem", "swan"
These symbols make Malcolm X seem even more precious to the reader,
Rhyme Scheme: Irregular
The poem makes the reader think seriouusly about the life and principles of Malcolm X. It laments him as a man who had the interest of his people at heart always.