Project Action Plan Week 14

Project Action Plan 

Week 14 

Anna Akhmatova 

• For this final project I was going to do my project on the poems from author Anna Akhmatova and use the topic of exploring the relationships between certain elements. The example they gave that I can also use is how does the setting influence character development and the setting plays a huge part in the development of the character throughout all the poems. 
• In the poem I will focus on is Requiem and it is a big poem that consist of separated parts named like Dedication and prologue and etc. Anna was effected by her setting immensely because she lived in Russia during the second world war and experienced many tragedies in her family and even her friends fell victim to the destruction of the country at the time. 
• I will explain how accompanied by some back ground information Anna is the perfect example of her setting influencing her because in the poems she was character in reality. Then I will explain how in an even more deep conclusion that this tragedy was not only happening to her but to women all over her country so it was important for her to explain the character in the poems was just a general sorrowful mother. 
• The whole page is the quotes I will use and then explain how those back up the claim to show how the setting influenced the sorrowful mother in the poems. And for my luck the poem is flooded with examples of this because Anna is such a poet that uses imagery and tone to help readers feel. One great example I will use first is "Mountains bow down to this grief, Mighty rivers cease to flow, But the prison gates hold firm" There are many of these so I am set and juts have to stay focused and used evidence and back it up with clear analysis and plan a success. 

Literary Analysis Week 14

Literary Analysis 

Week 14

This week for my analysis I chose to focus on the poem from the author Leopold Sedar Senghor ,"Black Women". This was a poem that caught my attention because of the imagery it gave from the descriptions of black women and just how beautiful they are. Just from the depth that Senghor goes into saying "And your beauty strikes my heart like an eagle's lightning flash"(pg.680). This comparison of how black women's beauty is so powerful it is compared to lightening and helps me as a reader understand how much the beauty affected the narrator in the poem. I wonder why the author related "Naked women black women or dark women" because was it to magnify how he believed black women were disrespected and just subjected to their beauty only. The tone it also is giving off with the repeating of those lines is black women beauty is the way to determine their value and also the poem continues to show the degrading actions happening to these "black women". Senghor writes, "Moaning under the hands of the conqueror, Your deep contralto voice is the spiritual song of the Beloved, Naked women, dark woman"(pg.680-681). The poem goes on to explaining how the "black woman" had to experience being raped by her conqueror and he wasn't able to resist her beauty. Making it even more clear how all of this imagery of how beautiful "black woman" are is true and they get even more credit for being strong by being able to bear all of these trails being made transparent in this poem. Senghor poem had me interested the whole time and the shortness of the poem made me want me especially because I don't understand fully of how it ended. For example
"I sing your passing beauty and fix it for all Eternity, before jealous Fate reduces you to ashes to nourish the roots of life". In my opinion it sounds like the "black woman" losers since it says she was reduced to ashes but I hope I am wrong on my guess. 

Reading Notes Week 14 Part A&B

Reading Notes 

Week 14

 Part A&B

• James Baldwin was an African American novelist that lead the rest with his prose stylists during the twentieth century. His most famous work included poetry laced with "the classics of English literature and the tones of biblical prophecy, combine personal reflection with a wider view of social justice"(pg.735). 
• As a youth Baldwins stepfather was a preacher and he was very involved in the church at a young age and was some way shunned because of his later involvement in secular literature. Although he did stay in close relationship with several churches over time and even preached when he was still a young man. 
• Also don't let me forget he was one of the icons of the civil rights movement. 
• In 1943 he was expected to go take care of his mother and siblings when he received the news of his fathers death but instead he moved to Greenwich Village in lower Manhattan to work as a writer and met other older writers and here in the place he "became aware of his homosexuality"(pg.735). 
• Leopold Sedar Senghor a poet who was also the founder of the movement Negritude and the first ever president of independent Senegal. His main subject was the personal and social conflicts between Europe and Africa. 
• A part of the poem "Black Women" is you could feel the pain in the words of the poem and the repeating of" naked black women" was used to further the point of the disrespect shown to black women and how they were subjected to that image only being naked. "Moaning under the hands of the conqueror, Your deep contralto voice is the spiritual song of the Beloved, Naked woman, dark woman"(pg. 680-681). 
• Very moving line because it showed how the black woman was the strongest through this whole poem because of the trails told. Also the disgust of the imagery of someone who conquered you and your people and they take advantage of you because they see you as "a black woman and beautiful"