OVERVIEW:
Write an essay addressing these three poems (attached in files) discuss the issues of social justice.
When writing, consider the following questions:
How can literature serve as a vehicle for social change?Are poetry and other forms of writing/performance an effective way for an individual take a stand against what he/she/they believe to be an injustice?How do these poets question and push back against the status quo?
What are the benefits and consequences of questioning / challenging social order in these poems?
What does it mean to be invisible?
(context: minorities)
What allows some individuals to take a stand against prejudice/oppression while others choose to participate in it?
What are the causes and consequences of prejudice and how does an individual’s response to it reveal his/her morals, ethics, and values?
Poems covered in class:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi2X4Im2ZFYNazim Hikmet:◦ ◦ ◦
Things I Didn’t Know I Loved by Nazim Hikmet:
https://poets.org/poem/things-i-didnt-know-i-loved◦ ◦ ◦
The Little Girl of Hiroshima by Nazim Hikmet:
◦ ◦ Hiroshima Child:
https://glli-us.org/2017/08/07/hiroshima-child-a-poem-by-nazim-hikmet/◦
◦ Bio:◦
◦https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9laBlRqboKg&t=303sDanes Smith:
1. Dear White America:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/150542/dear-white-america
2. Dinosaurs in the Hood:
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/57585/dinosaurs-in-the-hood
3. Waiting on You to Die So I Can Be Myself:
https://www.poetryinternational.org/pi/poem/29241/auto/0/0/Danez-Smith/Waiting-for-you-to-die-so-I-can-be-myself/en/tile4.
Trees:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ir6-35mTYO45.
Ooooo, You Look Like:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8lOqYNYJVFYAlternate
Heaven for Black Boys:
