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A 5 page paper which discusses and analyzes elements of Gwendolyn Brooks’ To the Diaspora and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s Sympathy. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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to find some answer in relationship to some force. In Gwendolyn Brooks To the Diaspora and Paul Laurence Dunbars Sympathy the narrators are illustrating a sense of struggle against society
and an element of seeking or illustrating ones identity. The following paper examines these forces as the narrators interact with society. Poetry: To the Diaspora and Sympathy In
first looking at how the narrators struggle against society, or interact with society, it is evident in Brooks poem that the narrator is speaking to the audience, or an individual,
as it relates to being African in ancestry. The narrator speaks of Africa (Afrika). It speaks, as the title suggests, of diaspora which is essentially related to the scattering of
ones ethnicity, from their homeland to their present position. This applies to the African Americans who were enslaved and so still somewhat African. But, many generations forgot that African connection.
That creates a sense of struggle in relationship to society. In the poem Brooks states, "I could not have told you then
that some sun would come,/ somewhere over the road,/ would come evoking the diamonds/ of you, the Black continent--/ somewhere over the road./ You would not have believed my mouth"
(Brooks 9-15). The narrator is illustrating how the reader, or listener, who is likely Black would not have believed them had they told them about what they would find out
about themselves in seeking Africa, which was actually seeking themselves. The narrator seems to be stating that no matter what the African American may do they will likely come upon
a time in their lives when Africa is seen as a part of them and this denotes a tension in relationship to society. Although the narrator is not actively pointing
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