For my creative piece I was wanted to write a poem. My inspiration for this task was tropicalism. Webster defines tropical as Of relating to, the characteristic of a region. Tropicalism in Brazil is The idea to take the Brazilian values the trashy ones as well as the good ones, the ugly ones as well as the beautiful ones and incorporate them into its art. In attempting to write this poem I wanted to bring up five aspects of Brazilian culture. Using the Tropicalism take on this poem; to illustrate the good of the country I focused on family structure and the issue of race, to illustrate the bad/ugly values of the country I wrote about the methods used in colonization, for the beautiful aspects of the Brazilian I used the carnivals that are popular in Brazilian culture. My sources of information were a Brazilian Popular Music web site ( http://www.maria-brazil.org/mpb1.htm), movies The House of the Spirits and Black Orpheus, and the American encyclopedia.
We can unite and beat our opposition We must stand until our children have better land So join me and stand for what is right If I had my way life would be just fine But the world is too cold and it makes me cry and turning my back, but we have worked to hard We out number the enemy so lets be wise and start a revolution Because a real man will die fighting So stand stand stand and we will own better land And we struggled with the dictatorship of our early days But not till the point we are drunk, and forget thee Lets use the energy we have for carnival Men let’s be men and women lets be women preto to the pardo and the mulatto and the white Our work is not done until we forget what it means to be poor And everyone obese with love and affection and security
The Term Paper on Poems "Island Man" And "The Fringe Of The Sea".
I recently read two poems, entitled “Island Man” and “The Fringe of the Sea”. These two poems are similar in many ways, but also have conflicting ideas. They both have connections to the sea, through the content of the poems, but also through the authors. Grace Nichols is the author of “Island Man”, and she was born in Ghana, and now living in Britain. A.L. ...
