The self and the Mulberry by Marvin Bell
movement DESCRIPTIONJazz poetry is a literary genre that is informed by jazz music in which the poet would write about jazz and his feelings towards jazz. The movement can be traced through the Harlem Renaissance, the Beats movement, and the Black arts movement and is still big today. The use of the blues and jazz music inspired the work of the poets. Some of the muses that poets mentions were: Louis Armstrong, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, and many more. Many of the poets associated in the movement were similar to those in the Beats movement, Black Arts movement, and the Harlem Renaissance like, Amiri Baraka, Sonia Sanchez, Langston Hughes, and others. Like many other movements, jazz poetry survived the major change of society and flourishes today.
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Poem AnalysisIn the poem "The Self and The Mulberry," Marvin Bell compares himself to the calmness of the Mulberry Tree. It is Marvin Bell's belief that the Mulberry Tree is nature's child and is the most magnificent thing in nature itself and he is trying to compare that tree to his properties. He uses puns and analogy to set the mood of the poem, which he emits as discovery or the finding of something that wasn't originally known. The reader would feel kind of inspired to find themselves by ways of a tree and the reader will discover that many things in this world are so much similar to humans actions or properties. Furthermore, the reader can tell that Marvin is in the wilderness because he has love problems that broke his spirit, greatly, and he failed in finding an answer so, he is letting nature take its course.
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Literary DEVICESIn the poem “The Self and The Mulberry” Marvin Bell adds to the amusing mood by using analogy to compare himself to the Mulberry Tree to give more explanation to what he is feeling about the recent event, which is why he is there to begin with. He tries to take the reader out of the main problem by putting puns in the poem in hope that you miss or forget the main point if the poem. It makes the reader think and provides a mood change.
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