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Phillis Wheatley and Tracy K. Smith Connections - Coggle Diagram

- - - - Both poets discuss race/ racial roles in society, as well as bring awareness through their poems to an important matter. For instance, Wheatley provides awareness on her journey from Africa to America and gives her perspective from personal experience of enslavement. Smith provides awareness on the our reality we live in today vrs. a new "perfect" reality.
- - - - Uses Similes, Allusion, and Apostrophes to compare two ideas. For example in On Being Brought from Africa to America, she uses simile to say Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, which is an association with the Bible, and Christians. In this stanza, Phillis is comparing a race to a religion idealogy. Phillis uses Apostrophes (punctuation) to shorten words to fit the iambic pentameter scale and to also make the words sound different, or allow the foot to flow better. In On Being Brought from Africa to America, Phillis uses refin'd and th' in the last line to get across the message of the poem.
        
        Phillis Wheatley uses a lot of emotion from her past experiences to allow the readers to form a connection to the poem, while also grasping the true message of the narrative.
        
        Wheatley is informal in her writing, however also talks about her relation to the event and her background.
    - - Uses Similes, Juxtaposition, and Personification to compare and convey concepts. For example in Sci-Fi, Tracy K Smith wrote, "History, with it's hard-spine and dog-eared corners, will be replaced with nuance. Just like the dinosaurs gave way, to mounds and mounds of ice." In these two couplets, Smith is comparing two concepts, evolution/life (in the past), to dinosaurs with nuance to provide the reader with a distinction between 2 reality's, an old and a new. Personification is also used when Wheatley describes history with human characteristics. Lastly, Juxtaposition is presented in her use of contrasting words. Smith describes our reality now with words like "edges", "corners", and "hard-spined", however our newer/future reality is described with words like "clean lines", "forward", and "nuance".
        
        Tracy K Smith has a variety of different poems, with and without emotion, for example, "Sci-Fi" is a more formal poem, whereas; "Mothership" displays slight emotion.
        
        Smith is informal in her writing specifically when talking about life/nature and evolution.
- - - - Use Alliteration
  - - - Uses Alliteration to get the attention of the reader, while also providing some melody or rhyme by exaggerating a phrase in a stanza.