An Analysis Of Mari Evans's Spectrum

“Spectrum” by Mari Evans

Mari Evans has always written unabashedly about and for African-Americans, yet in “Spectrum”, readers from all cultural backgrounds find useful insight into the human experience. The poem of written with the flourish of interesting and fancy language, full of her humor, brilliance, and musical expression. I did not only get her perspective and ideological thinking while reading the poem, but also enjoyed brilliant musical expression that was portrayed in the reading.

“What Happens” by June Jordan

In “What Happen”, June Jordan consistently called my attention to the lines that tend to divide us, such as racial segregation, through the poetry. She used a language that is beyond conventional or stereotypical usage by merging free verse with black vernacular, linearly organized sentences with dialogic style, parallelism, fractured lines, repeated phrases, parenthetical annotations, deliberate and free choice of a diagonal slashes or marks or saturation to keep ideas together.

"A Ballad of Remembrance" and "The Ballad of Nat Turner" by Robert Hayden

Robert Hayden wrote a poetry that balanced an elaborate exploration of the issue of race with technical mastery that could not be quibbled with no one, qualified or praised as a typical example of “Black Literature.”

The poem begins with an organized dialogue between daughter and mother during which the mother prohibits the daughter to march for her freedom, with fears that there would be an eruption of street violence. Instead, the mother gives her daughter the permission to sing in the kids’ choir at their church. How could she know that the streets might have offered some relatively enhanced safety? Together, Randall’s body of work evokes and chronicles, emotes and