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This is a college level tranfer course, the second in a series where we will examine the poetics of life lived on the ground...as in rough and tumble, as in America at war with herself. This is a world art alone makes sense of, an artist's work is a gift freely shared like air...sympathetic systems aligned, the the fictive or imaginary worlds of possiblity simply an inhale or exhale away. This class is an opportunity to close your eyes and believe.
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Victoria Gambrell
Professor Sabir
English 1B
23 September 2010
Sunny Days has their Complaints too!
In the book, From Totems to Hip-Hop, by Ishmael Reed, the poem that I decided to compare and contrast with The Known World was by David Colosi called Sun with Issues. I choose this poem because one major theme in The Known World has to do with the sun. You do not hear a lot about it but it is there most of the time mingling with the people.
One quote in chapter 6, The Known World, talks about Caledonia’s father’s vision; to have a place where his servants could be happy out in the fields. I took that to be good intentions with the dealings of his people. Since the sun is involved with this idea with the fields and happiness, I decided to prove the sun intentions in the poem to be good, making the assumption that at the end of the poem what the sun says was meant to be in a positive way (11).
Another quote that stood at to me in the poem I choose was a perfect title for how Caledonia was feeling after the sudden lost of her husband Henry, “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone”(8). In the book, she felt real bad over her lost and her mother made it a worst situation by reminding her to focus on the legacy of the family. I thought the song was perfect in tying in all the drama of the book along with the poem of the sun.
Ishmael,Reed. Totems to Hip-Hop.
Jones, Edward P. The Known World.
Nice Victoria. Next time use citations from both the book and the poem to illustrate your point.
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