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Throughout the emotional lyrics of Tupac Shakur’s song “Dear Mama”, he constantly reveals trial and tribulation. Shakur sympathetically expresses the obstacles he endures due to the undying support of his mother who displays sacrificial love. He explains the abnormal circumstances in which his family undergoes such as poverty, single parenting, and even feelings of hopelessness. Shakur characterizes his mother as a heroic figure, who outshines the negative aspects of his life by providing the essentials only a mother could both physically and morally instill in her child. The artist brilliantly captivates his audience by revealing personal information from his childhood in which many can relate to.
Tupac Shakur among very few artists has lyrically display admiration for his mother. Artists such as Boyz II Men, Gyptian, and Richie Spice have also affectionately dedicated lyrical tribute to their mothers. In contrast, songwriter Shirley Caesar wrote a song which begins with a brief dialogue, regarding a young man charging his mother for a few chores in which he completed. ...
Cheryl Strayed was twenty-two when she lost her beloved mother to lung cancer. It was such an unexpected death, she had no time to prepare for her mothers disastrous fate. Since she had no time to prepare, her grieving process lasted much longer than anyone expected. But, she had great reason. Her mother was the heart and soul of their entire family; keeping her brother, sister, and new stepfather all together. Without their mother being the glue that held them together, they all fell apart from each other, not even keeping in touch.
In Francis Ellen Watkins Harper's poem "The Slave Mother, A Tale of Ohio," she uses a shifting tone as well as other specific literary techniques to convey the heartbreaking story of a slave woman being separated from her child. This story specifically draws light to the horrific reality that many slaves faced: families were torn apart. Because this poem tells the story of a mother and her son, it also draws light to the love that mothers have for their children and the despair that they would go through if anything were to ever happen to them. Harper's poem addresses both race and gender, and it effectively conveys the heartbreak of the mother to the audience.
The narrator and Neeka were raised on their block in Queens. Neeka and the narrator develop a friend ship with D who is a foster child. During the two years of their friendship they keep up to date with Tupac’s shootings and trials. Then finally when summer is to its end D’s mother comes to claim her, so Neeka and the narrator
. These words were spoken by one of music’s most memorable icons. The majority of Tupac’s raps and poems were about the social injustices in the ghettos of America. Many of his songs are actually about Tupac’s own experiences growing up in the slums from the east coast to the west (McQuillar). In the heart-breaking song “Dear Mama” Tupac brings to light the struggle for single mothers trying to raise a family.
In Kodak Blacks song “Water” the verse “ My momma always told me about that water” shows how his mom warned him about the bad decisions
“While the rich kids is drivin ' Benz ,I 'm still tryin ' to hold on to my survivin ' friends.” In this quote Tupac had his audience take a second to image a rick kid driving in the hood with a Benz while a poor African Amirian boy is struggling to keep his friends. Tupac uses his lyrics to help paint a picture though his lyrics of the life of a black person which brings us to Imagery. The use of imagery in this song is amazing. Without even watching the music video and just listening to the song I could easily image everything that Tupac was trying to explain. This is what makes Tupac the best rapper still till this day! Another use of imagery is when he said “Dying inside, but outside you 're looking fearless, While tears, is rollin ' down your cheeks”. By this quote we as the audience should realize that there is more to this song that Tupac is trying to explain. In this quote I feel as though he was explaining that as African Americans more so black women tend to always wear this smile on our face no matter the situation when we know something in us is dying or is just not right. For some reason us black women have a habit of hiding our true feeling and situations. Last was the use of symbols which ties in with imagery. “They got money for wars, but can 't feed the poor”. What was Tupac really trying to say? This quote symbolize so much about America as a whole, and how as a nation we spend so much of our money on weapons for warfare but yet there are little kids who go days and weeks without no food. Is that fair? This quote symbolized pain and loss of hope because they (poor people) will never see a happy day. As they say we have to have the poor to have the
This darkly satiric poem is about cultural imperialism. Dawe uses an extended metaphor: the mother is America and the child represents a younger, developing nation, which is slowly being imbued with American value systems. The figure of a mother becomes synonymous with the United States. Even this most basic of human relationships has been perverted by the consumer culture. The poem begins with the seemingly positive statement of fact 'She loves him ...’. The punctuation however creates a feeling of unease, that all is not as it seems, that there is a subtext that qualifies this apparently natural emotional attachment. From the outset it is established that the child has no real choice, that he must accept the 'beneficence of that motherhood', that the nature of relationships will always be one where the more powerful figure exerts control over the less developed, weaker being. The verb 'beamed' suggests powerful sunlight, the emotional power of the dominant person: the mother. The stanza concludes with a rhetorical question, as if undeniably the child must accept the mother's gift of love. Dawe then moves on to examine the nature of that form of maternal love. The second stanza deals with the way that the mother comforts the child, 'Shoosh ... shoosh ... whenever a vague passing spasm of loss troubles him'. The alliterative description of her 'fat friendly features' suggests comfort and warmth. In this world pain is repressed, real emotion pacified, in order to maintain the illusion that the world is perfect. One must not question the wisdom of the omnipotent mother figure. The phrase 'She loves him...' is repeated. This action of loving is seen as protecting, insulating the child. In much the same way our consumer cultur...
In the novel Un - Ashamed by Lecrae moore, he talks about his life and how God intervened and changed him forever. Lecrae had horrible things happen to him as a child things no child should ever have to go through such as abuse and a fatherless childhood. He explains how his life was altered from being a child without a father because he looked for someone, anyone to be a father figure in his life. His uncles and cousins were there for him in different ways and showed him different things to make who he once was as a child. Rap was another thing there for him it was a substitute for his father especially Tupac because the way he sang was like he sang his Lecrae's exact life. Lecrae struggled with drugs, alcohol, and sex growing up which
Tupac Shakur overcomes the tough obstacles that tend to get in his way in his poem, “The Rose That Grew From Concrete,” an extended metaphor that shows how the rose in the poem represents Tupac and how the concrete represents the ghetto also known as where he’s from. With Tupac being the speaker of his own poem, he begins by showing the audience who he was, what he went through, where he grew up, and how he became successful throughout each stanza. The stanzas focus on who he was, by growing up in the wrong neighborhood, to learning how to walk without having feet, and overcoming the tough obstacles getting in his way to becoming successful. Tupac reveals that no matter where your from and or who you are, you can overcome
Tupac Amaru Shakur one of the most influential, controversial rappers to have ever existed. He grew up fatherless and at times motherless because of drugs, violence, and twisted ideas. Through struggle and hardships he found his flow. He showed the world that something can come from nothing. From joining up with the Digital Underground to his single debut he worked up he grew his fan base. As he grew in fame so did the East and West rivalry.
Tupac Shakur wrote the song as a dedication to his mother in February of 1995 in order to express the love and appreciation he had for her despite the fact he never showed her any as a child. Much like the speaker in “Those Winter Sundays” Tupac also had issues with his mother he states “When I was young me and my momma had beef” (2) in efforts to explain he and his mother would have a hard time getting along, there was a sense of indifference in between them. While in “Those winter Sundays” the speaker would speak to his father indifferently, Tupac on the other hand was “seventeen years old “(3) when he was kicked out in the street and was getting “suspended from school”. (6) Likewise both speaker admit that they would give their parents a difficult time. Both Tupac and the speaker of “Those Winter Sundays” did not appreciate the fact that their parents did everything for them. The father in the poem would wake while it was still dark outside to make sure there was a fire to provide warmth for his children, he would even wait to wake them until it was warm to ensure their comfort. While in “Dear Momma” the mother would “come home after working late and try to fix them (Tupac and his sister) /a hot plate” (51-52). Despite being exhausted she would make sure her children were feed. Both parents showed a great amount of love and dedication through their
As Calvin Forbes declared, when faced with two challenging decisions, you can’t have your cake and eat it too. Using exquisite rhythm, humor, and sophisticated word choices, Calvin Forbes depicts how a memory may not be regained no matter how much one dwells on it. The story behind “Momma Said” teaches us that you can’t have it all, no matter how hard you try. Calvin Forbes uses rhythm in the sense that rhythm gives the poem life. Most poets use rhyme to give the poem a sense of organization, and to make memorization easier.
He describes his mom as a very energetic and life-of-the-party type person. He noticed that everyone felt the loss of his mom, but no one felt it quite like him. Since he basically grew up without a dad, this was his mentor and the person he looked up to, He knew that now his little brothers looked up to him the same way he looked up to his mom,
Mama, as a member of an older generation, represents the suffering that has always been a part of this world. She spent her life coexisting with the struggle in some approximation to harmony. Mama knew the futility of trying to escape the pain inherent in living, she knew about "the darkness outside," but she challenged herself to survive proudly despite it all (419). Mama took on the pain in her family in order to strengthen herself as a support for those who could not cope with their own grief. Allowing her husband to cry for his dead brother gave her a strength and purpose that would have been hard to attain outside her family sphere. She was a poor black woman in Harlem, yet she was able to give her husband permission for weakness, a gift that he feared to ask for in others. She gave him the right to a secret, personal bitterness toward the white man that he could not show to anyone else. She allowed him to survive. She marveled at his strength, and acknowledged her part in it, "But if he hadn't had...
During Tupac's childhood, he was known as the "Black Prince," for misbehaving. When Tupac was two his sister, Sekyiwa, was born. A few months before she was born, her father, Mutula, had been sentenced to 60 years for a fataled armed car robbery. Without his step father the family went through hard times. Tupac was very distressed, because they moved to the Bronx, Harlem, and homeless shelters. Tupac stated that he cried all of the time. He couldn't fit in because he was from everywhere, and didn't have any buddies to grow up with.