What Is The Mood Of The Poem By Alice Walker

The poem written by Alice Walker deeply describes her subject and style matter. The poem is written as free verse; meaning that it does not contain a normal rhythmic pattern. As readers read along into the story, it is clear that the poem deals with a transformation from subjection to freedom. In the first stanza, an allusion is found to Walker's experience through her early stages of life. (Stanza 1, Line 7) Due to a BB gun accident during her childhood years, her eye was left with severe damages which also left her physically scarred and had a great impact on her viewpoint in life. A metaphor can also be found in the same part. The word wounded was used by the author in order to add more flow to the text. The poem relates how she’s "holding

Although she is of African-American decent, she describes being put down because of her looks regardless. Many people today face the same challenges that she describes in the first stanzas, however, the mood of the poem changes immensely after the first two stanzas and becomes more optimistic towards life. The first three stanzas that were mentioned before in the poem were now repeated in a different sense. That is categorized as repetition. In stanza three: "I would give”, ”to the human race”, “only hope” she explains that she will not let racial comments and hate determine her true self and strength. She does not wish to forget her past in the early stages of her life, but instead, wishes to motivate all African-Americans to gain hope in the modern society. This wish alone creates the change in wording that is first seen in stanzas four and five. Through these lines, the hope has allowed the author to re-create her image of her life, making it more optimistic and positive in a sense. She now realizes that all the negative attention that was ever part of her life as a child has now been turned into a

The poem then acknowledges this in stanza six by explaining that she only wishes to spread hope to the future human race. This repetition of the stanzas only goes to echo a greater message to the readers. In the last stanzas, there is a mutual connection of the quote "roots of the flower, justice and hope." The author gives two different images of life in the oppressed state and life in complete freedom. As she indicates: ”I am the woman”, “offering two flowers”, “whose roots are twin,” it allows the readers to understand that her transformation from bondage and physical deformation speak about justice on great levels, while the new, repaired image of the woman is re-created through hope. Therefore, justice and hope become the true roots of who this woman was and what she eventually had the chance to become. These roots, as she describes them, are the roots of a happy society or a place without hate or persecution. In this sense, justice and hope become interchangeably important in the survival of society that continually struggles with the topics of racism and