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Wise I by Amiri Baraka

This poem talks about how cultures are destroyed. Amiri Baraka uses "enemies" for the people who are destroying the culture. He repeats that you are in deep trouble because it would take a while to get the culture back to what it used to be.

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Wise I by Amiri Baraka

This poem talks about how cultures are destroyed. Amiri Baraka uses "enemies" for the people who are destroying the culture. He repeats that you are in deep trouble because it would take a while to get the culture back to what it used to be.

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Wise I By Amiri Baraka

If you ever find yourself, some where lost and surrounded by enemies who won't let you speak in your own language who destroy your statues & instruments, who ban your omm bomm ba boom then you are in trouble deep trouble they ban your own boom ba boom you in deep deep trouble humph! probably take you several hundred years to get out!

Amiri Baraka: Online Poems." Welcome to English Department of English, College of LAS, University of Illinois. Web. 06 Feb. 2012. <http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/a_f/baraka/onlinepoems.htm>.

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Interpretation: This poem talks about how cultures are destroyed. Amiri Baraka uses enemies for the people who are destroying the culture. He repeats that you are in deep trouble because it would take a while to get the culture back to what it used to be. Theme: Destroying cultures can take hundreds of years to fix. Figurative Language: Onomatopoeia: who ban your oom boom ba boom Repetition: ban your oom boom ba boom , deep trouble Imagery: Surrounded by your enemies appeals to the sense of sight Tone: Didactic, Contemplative

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