Gluttony
Part Of Speech-Noun
Definition-greedy or excessive indulgence
Source -Webster Dictionary
Choi Jeong MIn
Franny Choi
They make them into these greedy people but then get mad when they actually become these selfish greedy people.
Oppressed
Part Of Speech-Adjective
Definition-Subject to harsh and authoritarian treatment.
Source -Webster Dictionary
Found in ” Hair” by Elizabeth Acevedo (line 17)
This word expresses  how people from different races go through oppression because of the way they look.
Blossomed
Part Of Speech-Verb
Definition- mature or develop in a promising or healthy way.
Source -Webster Dictionary
“Folding My Clothes”
Julia Alvarez
This word is explaining how the girl is growing because now it says her feet grew
Leer
Part Of Speech-Verb
Definition-look or gaze in an unpleasant, malicious, or lascivious way.
Source -Webster Dictionary
Julia Alvarez
“All American Girl”
This is another word that also describes how she vie the way Americans speak.
Spite
Part Of Speech-Noun
Definition-a desire to hurt, annoy, or offend someone.
Julia Alvarez
“All American Girl”
This word in the context is showing how the person is trying to be american and thinks this word is how Americans portray themselves.
James Mercer Langston Hughes  lived ( February 1,1901 -May 22,1967), he was a american poet, social activist, novelist,playwright, and columnist from Joplin,Missouri.Hughes had a complex ancestry, both of Hughes paternal great grandmothers were enslaved African Americans and his Paternal great grandfathers were white slave owners in Kentucky. Hughes mother was a school teacher, his father left the family after Hughes was born and divorced Caroline Mercer Hughes mother.His father traveled to Cuba and then mexico to escape racism in the united states.Hughes was raised in Kansas by his maternal grandma she installed racial pride in him as a young boy.In Hughes autobiography “The Big Sea’ he wrote: “I was unhappy for a long time, and very lonesome, living with my grandmother. Then it was that books began to happen to me, and I began to believe in nothing but books and the wonderful world in books—where if people suffered, they suffered in beautiful language, not in monosyllables, as we did in Kansas”,this where his love for literature started.In 1925 Hughes poem ”The Weary Blues ” showed his poetic style and his dedication to his black heritage. This poem won first prize in in a Opportunity magazine literary competition, and he also received a scholarship to Lincoln university in Pennsylvania.
https://www.biography.com/people/langston-hughes-9346313
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/langston-hughes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Langston_Hughes
 Poetry In Motion                 Â
The title of the poem I have chosen is “My Words To You” by Jean Valentine, I found this poem on the 6 line. I have seen this Poem many times before, every time I would see it I would read it and try to understand it. This Blog Post gives me the opportunity to go more in depth and really get a better understanding of this poem. My initial reaction to reading this poem, was the speaker holding on to a loved one and spending more time with them. In line 1 to 3 “My words to you are the stitches in a scarf “/ I don’t want to finish/ maybe it will come to be a blanket”. I think that the speaker wants more time with their loved one, because comparing a scarf to a blanket, a scarf is smaller and takes less time to make. Stitching that blanket together symbolizes the speaker wanting time to say more and spend more time with their loved one.
The two themes I can take from this poem are love and time, Time because the speaker wants to spend more time with their loved ones, they don’t want the words to finish because then time is up. Love because they want to hold there love one and not lose them. I do think this poem is accessible for general readers because there are many different ways to decode this poem because it is short and straight to the point. The image next to the poem is a design of many different flowers within each other, it is very abstract. What does this image represent ? Why do the words have to end?, those are two questions that have been picking my mind.
Narcissus
Part Of Speech-Noun
Definition-Â a bulbous Eurasian plant of a genus that includes the daffodil, especially (in gardening) one with flowers that have white or pale outer petals and a shallow orange or yellow cup in the center
Source – Webster Dictionary
Found in Rita Dove” Persephone, Falling ” line 1
The definition of this flower helps make an image in mind of the difference between these flowers in this context.
Assails
Part of Speech- Verb
Definition – Make a concerted or violent attack on.
Source – Webster Dictionary
Found in Edna St. Millay’s “Pity Me Not Because Of The Light Of Day” Line 10
This definition helps me understand how the authors is showing how nature tend to destroy tings overtime.
Jeer
Part of speech- Verb
Definition- Make rude and mocking remarks, typically in a loud voice
Source- Webster Dictionary
Found in Claude McKay’s “America” Poem, Line 10
This definition allows me to understand that their is some bitterness ad hatred towards America.
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