Fort Malcolm X Poetic Techniques

In the poem, For Malcolm X, Margaret Walker uses the poetic form of the sonnet to mourn the loss of . Walker combines the conventional characteristics of both the Italian and English sonnet form to suggest that death may kill a man, but it will not kill the movement he represents. Together the poems “fort Malcolm x” and “methought I seen my wife” depict how the loss of an influential person affects in differing states of mind.
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Walker uses literary devices and techniques consistent with the structure of an Italian sonnet to arouse emotion. Traditionally, a sonnet is 14 lines long and consists of two parts: the proposition and resolution. These parts divided by a turn, which results in the proposition being given a new perspective in the final section. In an Italian sonnet these sections are broken into an eight-line octave and a six-line sestet. The absence of a visible rhyme scheme is a major variation in Walker’s, which allows poetic freedom other formal requirements have been met. The strict structure of a traditional sonnet is written with a thematic statement commonly associated with addressing the poets’ personal desire of a female subject; however, Walker employs unconventional poetic

The closing couplet changes the speakers focus in a different but related way – waking them up from the realization that life goes on.
Written on the occasion of loss of a dear friend, Tennyson …
Although “In Memoriam 27” is an elegy, it uses structure to emphasize the resolution, just as Walker did. Broken down into a distinctive stanza form, each quatrain sets up potential metaphors that are realized in the final two lines.
The last two lines of the poem for Malcolm x ask a rhetorical question which has the speaker alludes to a Christ like figure. This turn although unconventional places emphasis on the death of a Christ like person who was crucified on the cross of the civil rights