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Analysis: Context, Content, Form (of Dr Martin Luther King Jr's famous speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington) Rev. King delivered it at the commencement of the 'Great March' or March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in 1963. Exactly a hundred years before this historical event, the Emancipation Proclamation was signed by Abraham Lincoln to the desired effect of eradicating slavery and racial injustice. However, it was unclear what should happen with slaves; the proclamation did not remove racism or discrimination or address the issue of compensation to slaves or their former owners; and loopholes of citizenship as well as civil concerns rendered the decree a failure. Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (henceforth King) notes how, even a hundred years after the decree was passed, the miseries of the black man continue - police brutality, poverty, exile, social immobility, and delay in justice, freedom, equality and citizenship rights. The political and...

 - Sylvia Plath ⦁ green young - fresh leaves, innocence ⦁ boy - very young ⦁ frozen in time ⦁ statue witnesses so many autumns ⦁ bronze medal of honor in military ⦁ "Nothing gold can stay" ⦁ bronze - young one who has lost his life ⦁ gold mouths - shining crevices of the statue ⦁ all the time that he has been immortalized, he has witnessed the rest of the world ⦁ heroic reason - for valor; perhaps for prosperity, recognition ⦁ metal season - autumn - you begin to think you're all that and you acquire a reputation but it won't last ⦁ dead laugh among the goldenrod -> power, wealth -> grave - goldenrod in coffin -> all that you accumulate in life is meaningless in death -> laughing at "gold" -> all glory means nothing to the boy because he is dead so seeking fame and wealth is futile ⦁ kneedeep in centuries * doesn't affect him anymore * disillusioned * been there done that * no point in seeing anything if...

10-11 on Sept 18 ⦁ written in 1940 but set in 1920 ⦁ Harlem renaissance of 1918-1930 - African-American settlement ⦁ separation; did not live in harmony ⦁ supposedly equal but not, so -> black pride -> jazz music especially Harlem stride ⦁ poem is abut new beginnings - all skin colors in harmony ⦁ politically driven - progressive socialist secular ideas ⦁ Langston Hughes as a jazz composer, an artist painting with colors of skin ⦁ write me some songs - this is what's in our minds ⦁ swamp mist representation of upward mobility; rising, camouflage; look up jazz album released ⦁ dew - "falling" indiscriminately - music to be enjoyed by all ⦁ tall tall - landscape of America; African-American men ⦁ significance of pine - evergreen, prosperous ⦁ red clay - Native Americans ⦁ poppy - Australians, Commonwealth Army ⦁ brown - Mexicans ⦁ daisy eyes - Europeans ⦁ red necks - sunburnt plantation workers ⦁ "creamies" white black...

⦁ simple writing ⦁ pastoral images ⦁ starts with delight ends with reason ⦁ still a Romantic, but very subtle ⦁ (not raw, jarring - speaks of all things that cummings and Ezra Pound speak of, but with class and subtlety) ⦁ impressionism, expressionism ⦁ wall - separates his route from another's ⦁ "And had just..." reliving a memory; seeing and showing us what happened ⦁ Footprints - remnants of memories; great (important events) and small (of less consequence); impressions, not just images ⦁ Less than two (I am incomplete, I have lost me) but more than one (and taken on parts of you) ⦁ point of the parasol - at that one point we saw the true nature, the real shape, we saw with clarity the boundaries of our relationship ⦁ she smiles, recounting memories, without prejudice to him: -> perhaps a past that he wasn't even a part of -> she had many pretty memories before him but that doesn't forfeit the possibility of her being hapy in his...