Thursday, April 28, 2016

Find a poem

You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.


Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.


Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I'll rise.


Did you want to see me broken?
Bowed head and lowered eyes?
Shoulders falling down like teardrops.

Weakened by my soulful cries.


Does my haughtiness offend you?
Don't you take it awful hard
'Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines
Diggin' in my own back yard.


You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your hatefulness,
But still, like air, I'll rise.


Does my sexiness upset you?
Does it come as a surprise
That I dance like I've got diamonds
At the meeting of my thighs?

Out of the huts of history's shame
I rise
Up from a past that's rooted in pain
I rise
I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,
Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

Leaving behind nights of terror and fear
I rise
Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear
I rise
Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,
I am the dream and the hope of the slave.

I rise
I rise
I rise.
This poem has nine stanzas and 1-7 stanzas have 4 lines but 8 has 6 lines and 9 has 9 lines. 
Most of line's syllable is 8 but some of them are not 8 syllables so this author doesn't care about syllable that much. The rhyme of the poem is very weird because this poem's rhyme is ABCB DEFE GHIH JKLK MNON PQRQ STUT ......... So second line and fourth line is rhyme. No.8 and 9 stanza's fifth line and sixth line rhyme so I think this poem’s rhyme is very unique. This author doesn't about forms of poem but this poem still has rhyme. Only this author cares about I rise. This author repeat I rise 10 times in this poem. So he cares this deeper than other forms.

The main topic of this poem is rise. In each stanza, it says what happen to the person but the person rises. So this poem’s purpose is to tell readers about you should rise when something happen to you. This is about life and rise is very important thing in everyone’s life. In last stanza, there are five lines that say I rise. So we can see that how much this author wants to tell about the importance of rise. I like this poem because I agreed to this poem because I'm living my life and there are so many problems. But I need to rise and keep moving forward so I agree that rise is very important thing in our life. The one reason that I don't like this poem is this poem doesn't have many rhymes. When I read this loud, it doesn't stay in my head. Some other poems stuck in my head but this poem doesn't. But this is still my favorite poem because I like the content of the poem.



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