February 14th, 2012 Blog

My favorite poem from the reading for today is "The Progress." I found this poem really interesting. I'm not going to lie, I really like this poem because of the fact that it seems like a slight protest against the government. It gives imagery of many people, especially imagery of white people(it's the feeling I get from reading the poem), being happy being slavery is over and everyone is watching the president's speech being all patriotic and such. BUT, Brooks still shows that the status of the black man hasn't changed. It still is pretty much slavery except now the blacks don't work for free. They are consistently living in fear just like they have when they were slaves.... nothing has really changed for them.

I've noticed something about the poems I find interesting in this class. I've seen to taking a liking to all of the protest poems we have read. It's something about them that shows that humanity will not stand for injustice and people will be willing to keep fighting for what they believe is right.

-Sean Song