Analysis Of Cornelius Eady's 'The Supremes'

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What is the scope of today’s world? Through the eyes of Cornelius Eady, the author of The Supremes, it may be seen differently than any person’s view upon the world. Through the examining of the theme of the poem The Supremes we are able to understand in some sense how the author may view the world. The Supremes was written by Cornelius Eady is a free verse poem that covers the lack of creativeness in the education system. The poem has a lack of rhyme and meter that aids in establishing the tone of the poem. This is compensated as the poem switches between anapest meter and iambic meter (Branchini). This makes the poem non consistent, disturbing, and interesting all in the same movement. “We were born to be gray (Meyer Line 1).” Is an opening …show more content…

The narrator and the children are referred to as having “went to school, sat in rows, ate white bread (Meyer Line 2)”- the lines use imagery very well to pass along the impression that the children suffer from dullness and are being conditioned for everyday life (Branchini). The concern of this education system is not the education and growth of the children, but rather the attendance of the individuals themselves and learning to conform to the expectations of the rest of their …show more content…

It is placed here to remind us that the school children in the poem still have the same dissatisfaction when it comes to the ideas of bullying amongst each other. While the third verse quotes that the harassing was “training”, this fifth verse says that “Slowly we understood: this was to be the world (Meyer Line 21).” This line shows us that without adult intervention and role models that schoolchildren chose to base their lives upon that the children had to learn that the world they lived in was negative, cruel, and

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