on On the Train the Women Standing by Claudia Rankine: To a person of colour, subjection to racism is not unordinary; in fact, it has been accustomed to. The same can be said for the person unleashing these acts of racism – they have become habitual and the significance behind each act of racism has been… Continue Reading Potential in the Darkest Places
on The following poem is a response to “Riot” – Gwendolyn Brooks These eyes reflect the injustices seen, possessing great melancholy feelings about the uncertainties that lay ahead. Vast sorrow magnified through the great looking glass, alive in the state of death. A riot without violence, one with violence, with direction, with a motive. Motivated by… Continue Reading These Eyes Reflect
on To a Sad Daughter I felt that this poem was a way for a father to express his love and devotion to his daughter. He chooses to express his feelings through writing about both his and her struggles as they both grew together. The author shows how the father trusts his daughter and wants her… Continue Reading The Sad Miracle
on The following is a literary response to Riot: a poem by Gwendolyn Brooks Phoenix: In Egyptian mythology a bird which lived for five hundred years and then consumed itself in fire rising anew from ashes Gwendolyn Brooks The phoenix is a symbol of new beginnings. In mythology, it’s a bird of golden red feathers adored… Continue Reading It’s Time: To Rise