Thursday, February 23, 2012
"Black Woman" by Georgia Douglas Johnson
It was a pretty sad poem, when I first read it I wanted to cry as I was answering the questions more images and feelings came to my mind. How could this woman end her child's life? How could she feel with the remorse? I admire her determination to end the baby's life. It helped me to understand that she felt she was doing the right thing, because she believed this world was cruel and sinful, that the baby was coming to suffer and not be happy. I really like the "How to close read a poem" structure, I will definitely save it and use it in the future, it helped me a lot. I put myself in the speaker's place and felt their words.
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It's interesting that you think the woman ended her child's life. What evidence did you find for this conclusion?
ReplyDeleteI think the poem's deliberately ambiguous on this question, which is one of the things that makes it so interesting.
Also, I'm not sure you followed the assignment all that way through. Take a second look at it, and if you'd like, do another post that fulfills it.
http://cwiamericanlit.blogspot.com/2012/02/week-6-blog-assignment.html