Analysis Of I 'M Not Black You' Re Not White By Richard Williams

“Labels are just labels”

Do you consider yourself racist? Well, if you don´t you should read a poem by Richard Williams; “I’m not black, you’re not white”. Richard Williams writes poems that motive and teach people that we are all equal. We are affecting the world and he shows us that we can change. The poem is about that no matter which skin color, culture, gender we are all equal and that we have to brake these labels instead of accept them. In the poem Richard Williams explains that we have accept each other by writing a poem using similes, metaphors, repetition and also rhymes.

In the poem you can find similes. As we know a simile is a comparison of two things using “like” or “as”. An example can be “Human beings were not meant to be slapped with labels like groceries at supermarkets”. As mentioned before, a simile use “like” or “as”. This quote is also comparing the human beings with the groceries at supermarkets. As you can see

A metaphor is a comparison of two things without using “like” or “as”. One of them can be “our bodies are just cars that we operate and drive around”. This quote helps us understand the message which Richard tries to share us. Nevertheless, this quote prove that Richard Williams wants us to understand his purpose of making us see people differently.

In the poem you can also find examples of sound devices; repetition and rhyme schemes. Repetition is when you use a word, phrase, or sound more than once. So, an example that we can find in the poem is "labels are not you and labels are not me". This quote can be a little confusing but it helps us understand that we should not let these labels separate us. This quote means that we should not divide people by their race, culture ... This quote proves that Richard wanted to convince us to accept each other.

As mentioned before you can find rhyme in the poem. The rhymes are the words that sounds similar at the end of a line. Some of them