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Segregation poem
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Created on January 14, 2024
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Hello
Title : "Isn't it awful ?"
"Isn't it awful"
Isn’t it awful not to be able to eat in a public place Without being arrested or snarled at right in your face? Isn’t it awful not to be able to go to the library and get an interesting book Without being put out and given a hateful look? Isn’t it awful not to be able to sleep peacefully nights For fears you might get bombed because you want your rights? Isn’t it awful not to be able to get your schooling where you please? Just because of our race, color and creed we cannot feel at ease.
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Edith Moore, age 15 (1964), Mississippi Extracted from the book Freedom School Poetry, 1965
"Isn't it awful"
Isn’t it awful not to be able to eat in a public place ) Without being arrested or snarled at right in your face? Isn’t it awful not to be able to go to the library and get an interesting book Without being put out and given a hateful look? Isn’t it awful not to be able to sleep peacefully nights For fears you might get bombed because you want your rights? Isn’t it awful not to be able to get your schooling where you please? Just because of our race, color and creed we cannot feel at ease.
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Edith Moore, age 15 (1964), Mississippi Extracted from the book Freedom School Poetry, 1965
Rhyme schemes
The sun is shining bright ...... This is a lovely sight. ...... You are like a day of May ...... And I as worthless as hay. ......= ..................................... rhymes When I consider how my light is spent ...... Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, ...... And that one talent which is death to hide ...... Lodg'd with me useless, though my soul more bent ......= .................................... rhymes Bring me my Bow of burning gold: ..... Bring me my arrows of desire: ..... Bring me my Spear: O clouds unfold! ..... Bring me my Chariot of fire! .....= ...................................... rhymes
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"Isn't it awful"
Isn’t it awful not to be able to eat in a public place Without being arrested or snarled at right in your face? Isn’t it awful not to be able to go to the library and get an interesting book Without being put out and given a hateful look? Isn’t it awful not to be able to sleep peacefully nights For fears you might get bombed because you want your rights? Isn’t it awful not to be able to get your schooling where you please? Just because of our race, color and creed we cannot feel at ease.
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Edith Moore, age 15 (1964), Mississippi Extracted from the book Freedom School Poetry, 1965
Anwser the questions
Pick out details about the situation in the USA : write down the daily activities and the public places mentioned. What can you conclude?
Write down the prohibitions in your own words. What happened when the rules were not respected?
What is the effect of the anaphora (the repetition at the beginning of the lines). Is the author happy with the situation? Justify and explain why.
Pick out details about the situation in the USA : write down the daily activities and the public places mentioned. What can you conclude?
Write down the prohibitions in your own words. What happened when the rules were not respected?
What is the effect of the anaphora (the repetition at the beginning of the lines)Is the author happy with the situation? Justify and explain why.
Themes : Marriage, bus, public places (hall, theatre, opera house, motion picture show, public swimming pool, restaurants, hairdresser), playing games together (dice, cards, dominoes, checkers), ...
Activity
Use your imagination. With your classmate, write a stanza in the style of Edith Moore to denounce segregation.Remember the Jim Crow Laws.