I enjoyed reading, “Black Art”, by Amiri Baraka. The tone of the poem had a lot of emotion possessing anger yet nearing the end, uplifting and hopeful. Judging by the aggressiveness towards the behavior placed upon African Americans in this poem that Baraka was an activist towards segregation. He felt that poems must send a graphical message and not of love and feeling but of violence. Is he saying that that’s what black poem is about? Why does he feel violence is the answer? During his time there were others who wanted to fight segregation as well but not like how Baraka wanted. Did Baraka feel as though the black community’s voice could not be heard unless said in such a tone? Did he not think about how others would picture African Americans after this poem as more violent? This is a very powerful poem however, it can be interpreted in two ways. One being that, they have suffered a lot and should be supported and the other being, the African Americans are crazy.
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