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“Grows” and “rose” rhyme.

  • March 26, 2021

Pandemic

  • March 24, 2021

I don't see alliteration or Allusion in this line.

  • March 12, 2021

I agree. The tone shifts, but the content is the same. HOWEVER, that tonal shift clues you in to the content that you just skipped over, and makes you re-read the first five lines.

  • February 16, 2021

Yes! I hear the repetition of the “h” that you're talking about in the title, “Harlem Hopscotch”; and the “g” in “Good things for the ones that's got”; and the “c” in “Curse and cry”.

  • February 16, 2021

These are verbs. But, yes, Kwame Alexander's writing puts emphasis on the verbs.

  • February 16, 2021

Laurel looks like this:

  • February 16, 2021

What is a madron tree?

  • February 16, 2021

A “glen” is a deep valley.

  • February 16, 2021

“Torrent” here means a mountain stream.

  • February 16, 2021

Caprice

  • February 16, 2021

Cool idea. I love that! “A once-destructive force”…

  • February 16, 2021

Seriously. Why do they want to swim in it?

  • February 12, 2021

Yes, I see the rhyme in the first two lines of each stanza. Rhyme makes me hear the text’s ‘voice’, and feel its physical effect in my body.

  • February 9, 2021

Hopscotch would no way be enough of an escape, given the harshness of the reality you're talking about. And to suggest that it would trivializes people's “struggles of life”.

  • February 9, 2021

I like this interpretation.

  • February 9, 2021

Kwame Alexander's verbs don't sound calm to me: “Climb”, “Swim”, “Dance”, “coming and going”… they all sound busy and active. Also, there's no tree in this poem.

  • February 9, 2021

Austin is not a person. It's a city in Texas.

  • February 9, 2021

How come? What is it about these three words (“in Austin, Texas”) that reminds you of traveling?

  • February 9, 2021

I don't get it. If you have big feet, why didn't they call you “Big Foot”?

  • February 9, 2021

So?

  • February 9, 2021

I agree. “Soul” does sound like a soft word. The “S” and the “L” are both soft sounds.

  • February 9, 2021

Or maybe a child to whom something horrible happens, so the parent is calling and calling for them and getting worried, or wailing their name.

  • February 5, 2021

“the mysteries of minnows and of mud.” I like the sound of the repeated “M” sound.

  • February 3, 2021

Yeah, Baldwin's descriptive writing reduces the distance between the character and the reader down to zero. Like, his descriptions position a reader practically physically inside of the narrator.

  • January 28, 2021

I agree. A Pentacostal evangelical church in the 1930's and 40's would not have been a hospitable environment for a young, gay, free-thinker.

  • January 28, 2021

Yeah. Tish got jokes.

  • January 27, 2021

Hello! Everyone, that's Fonny who's putting his hand on Tish's breast. It's the sex scene.

  • January 26, 2021

Wait. I don't get it. Why does Tish say that Fonny's worrying is what got him in jail in the first place? The only reason he's in jail is that Officer Bell framed him.

  • January 26, 2021

Yes. I agree. The way Baldwin describes his characters' physicality puts us so close to them that we're practically inside them. He causes us to have the sensation of looking out through tears in our eyes.

  • January 25, 2021

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