Black Wars by Savia Gordon
MOVEMENT DESCRIpTION Slam is one of the most vital and energetic movements in poetry during the 1990s. This generation of spoken word poetry is often highly politicized, drawing upon racial, economic, and gender injustices as well as current events for subject manner. A slam is simply a poetry competition in which poets perform original work alone or in teams facing an audience, which serves as judge. The work is judged on the manner and enthusiasm of its performance as its content or style, and many slam poems are not intended to be read silently from the page. The structure of the traditional slam was started by construction worker and poet Marc Smith in 1986 at a reading series in a Chicago jazz club. The competition quickly spread across the country, finding a notable home in New York City at the Nuyorican Poets Café.
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POEM ANALYSISIn the poem, “Black Wars” Savia Gordon talks about the violence that is happening in the city today. She makes a reflection on how slavery and war has made different ethnicities dislike each other so much that there is like a war the street of the city. The violence has no meaning and we have to live with it day by day.
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Literary Devices
The literary devices used in, “Black Wars” are metaphor and allusion. Metaphor is used when Savia Gordon compares the crime to the wars that are happening in the world. Allusion is used when she talks about slavery and war has made different races dislike each other so much that there is like a war the street of the city.
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