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Poetry shall not serve: Poetry and Political Resistance - Coggle Diagram
Poetry shall not serve: Poetry and Political Resistance
Poetry
Maya Angelou- Stil I rise
Antonio Jacinto-Letter from a Contract Worker
Say No- Gcina Mhlophe
Audre Lorde- Coal
Literature
Poetry
Rhythm, rhyme, ideas, themes, sounds and figurative language
Resistance literature
Exposure of cruelty & power
Especially exposing political power
To build a better nation
Political Resistance
Say No- Gcina Mhlophe represents a form of political resistance because it talks about how black women should not conform to the pressures and claims of the apartheid society. They need to stand up for themselves and realize their worth so they can put an end to the racial oppression of apartheid.
Coal-Audre Lorde. It is in its own form is a political resistance because it talks about the Poet Audre Lorde and how she is oppressed in having the freedom to express herself and that some words or phrases she cannot say because as a black African-American woman living in America during the 1960s some words if expressed to the public could get her arrested or killed by white cops.
It was illegal to express yourself
This poem teaches us that sometimes, somethings have to be said and it doesn't matter how illegal it is to the oppressors or shameful and we just need to speak from the heart and express our beliefs.
"Still I rise"- Maya Angelou that poem is like a way to express herself with all the hatred she had been feeling and how she overcomes all of it.
She is writing for all those that have ancestrial traces back to slavery that even so, she will rise above all odds and become stronger.
Resistance- It is to strongly deny or disapprove something
Elements: Poetry, Political resistance and Literature