January 19th Blog

All three of these poets used a range of both formal and informal(dialect) styles. By using formal language, these African-American poets were able to appeal not only to the white's in America, but I also believe that it brought them international fame. By using the formal style, white Americans were able to relate and read the poems without feeling as though it was written by an African-American, thus this could appeal to a lot of whites due to the racism back then. Even though the poems were written in formal style, the poets were still able to convey the message of the struggles of being an African-American and in some sense they were able to convey this message to the white's of America to show them how it was to be an African-American. An advantage of using informal(dialect) language is obvious, to appeal to the African-Americans. By using informal language, it allows African-Americans to relate very closely to the poems because a lot of the poems made by these poets were about the struggles of being an African American. I also believe that these informal poems could of reached the hands of the whites of America. And if the poems did, then the white Americans could really get a grasp of how Africans would converse without any white influence. I also believe poems conveyed in informal tone has a deeper impact on the reader. For me, as I read the informal tone poems I can picture the author speaking to me in that way, thus I believe it has a deeper and more meaningful impact on the reader.

-Sean Song