Poetry Analysis
The year is 1872, slavery has ended with the Civil War seven years ago, and the now United States is undergoing the process of Reconstruction. Born in 1825, Frances E. W. Harper is 47 years old and a brilliant female African-American writer whose fingertips are on the heartbeat and pulse of voiceless women and blacks. In her frustration and perseverance, she sits down and pens "Aunt Chloe's Politics", a timeless attack on the politics of Reconstruction and the poem that is being analyzed in this essay. Harper's "Aunt Chloe's Politics" uses colorful, colloquial language, the events of the Civil War and Reconstruction Era, and the fearless tone of the speaker to depict the political condition of that time and provoke an emotional response from the reader. When reading this poem, the reader's attention is immediately drawn to the language that the author uses to portray the social class of the speaker. Lines like "I've seen 'em honey-fugle round..." gives the reader the impress
know very much about these politics," but what she did realize is that there was a group buying up of each other...". The ABCB rhyme scheme and compact structure of the
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Approximate Word count = 704
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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