Baraka’s

In Amiri Baraka’s poem, “To a Twenty Volume Suicide Note”, At first I was confused at what Baraka’s was trying to say in his poem. After the second time reading I started to understand the poem more clearly. The beginning of the poem shows how Baraka’s is depressed he says,”The ground opens up and envelopes me”, as if he is getting swallowed up by the earth. At the end he tells us that he sees his daughter clasping her hands on her knees, which I think his daughter is praying. I think Baraka’s uses this illustration of his daughter praying at the end of the poem, because although he writes about all depressing circumstances in the beginning of the poem. Baraka’s ends with his daughter praying because, I think he sees his daughter as his everything to live.