October 29 Poetry Blog

For this weeks poetry blog we had the following poems to read.  We were to read all the poems by Hughes on The following pages 1129-1157. All the poems by Alvarez on Pages 1185-1212. The poem by Marlowe , Called The Passionate Shepard To His Love On page 1239 which I could not find in my book or on line and also Raleigh " The Nymphs Reply To The Shepherd" Pg 134. The poems by hughes seemed to be talking about being colored and growing upas as a slave longing to be free. The Poems by Alvarez talked of immigrants and racial tendencies of an earlier time.
 The first poem that i chose to write on was Sometimes the Words Are So Close by Julia Alvarez. In this poem we are reading this from the point of view of handwritten words.It seems to be talking about the fact that no one hand writes things anymore. Everyone uses a computerto type papers and the art form of handwriting has disapeared.The second poem i chose was Queens by Julia Alvarez. This poem seems to be talking about a young immigrant girl who wants to know why people are judged on their color or country or even their religion.It tells of a woman who has lived on their street whos main concern was her property value going down due to the variety of people living on it.The third poem i chose to write about was highto Low by Hughes. In this poem he seems ashamed of the person the poem is about. He mentions how she lives and sends her kids to school she has no class or respect for anyone.He seems to think that this person is ruining the respect of people for their entire race. The fourth poem that i chose to write about was 50-50 by Hughes. This poem is about a woman who is complaing about not having someone to callher own she is all alone. There is a man in the story who seems to like her if she would just use her head..I think she loves  Big Boy but does not know how to tell him.I think big boy is a big jerk he not only wants her to provide him a place to lay his head but he wants her to provide for him to he sounds like a lazy person.I think that the title 50-50 means that she is taking a gamble . If she lets him in sure she will have aman but what kind of man will that be.The Fifth poem that i chose to write about was Negro. This poem tells what it was like to be a negro.From being a slave to a worker to a singer to a victim and finally to a Negro again.He seems to identify being a Negro with lots of hard work .The speaker describes a life of hard work and slavery no freedom for the negro.