Make up on empty space

We change our identity so many times that we tend to lose track of who we are. The imagery suggests that the poems are made by just writing how you feel at the moment. They have no time to rhyme, their poetry slips onto the paper the way it would slip off their tongues. They are basically writing in a journal, things that don’t make sense, things that are being done at that very moment, things that they feel. They speak on it and turn it into a poem. That’s how I write mines. The imagery also suggest that the complexity of defining an identity comes from various different ways. The poet speaks of

I am putting make up on the empty space
Everything crumbles around empty space

Those two lines shows the irrelevance to mankind and this world because of the fact that she believes that empty space is what defines all that we are surrounded by. Maybe its just her world that she feel has an empty space because she only speaks of herself an her world in these terms.

Marge Piercy ``Barbie Doll``

``Barbie Doll`` discusses the present day issues that females go through on a regular basis. Its about a lost girl who finds herself to be imperfect, the fact that other people (students) point out to what they feel are her flaws makes her feel less attractive. She obviously went to someone for comfort because it explained that

She was advised to play coy,
exhorted to come on hearty,
exercise, diet, smile and wheedle.

This is nothing new to any generation, dolls symbolize perfection and what society feels a female or male should look like to be considered perfect. Well in this poem we read about a female who then decides to cut off her ``so-called`` imperfections which are her nose and legs an eventually dies.

Theme for English B by Langston Hughes

Honestly speaking, as I read this poem it reminded me of how I write my poems. He wrote this poem literally as he was writing in a journal. He did not rhyme so you can tell the poem was written just as he would speak it. He went into the context of showing face that he didn't want to be like his professor (not sure if just by race, occupation or American) but also the professor didn't want to be like him either. He said

 Go home and write

      a page tonight.

      And let that page come out of you—

      Then, it will be true.

    He did and thats exactly why he wrote the way he did. He let out his true emotions and put it on the paper. I don't know why but so far both poems that I read from him didn't necessarily give me an image to work off off, maybe the next one I read will.

Harlem by Langston Hughes

This poem brought me back to my high school days when I analyzed this exact poem. I watched the movie called "A Raisin in the Sun" and discussed what the poem meant. Reading it again reminded me of where I am at today. My dreams were deferred. In high school, I had plans to get into FIT college and become the greatest fashion designer out there. It obviously has not happened that way because my dream got deferred due to the realities of life.

Does it dry up

      like a raisin in the sun?

      Or fester like a sore—

      And then run?

    Those four lines signifies the harsh realities of peoples dreams. Dreams either never happen, shrivel up til it can have life brought back into them, sit there and then goes away. This poem does not rhyme and it has no imagery to it but it makes you think deeply about festering dreams. Its a dream we can only make of it, what we want to make of it.