Analysis Of What It's Like To Be A Black Girl By Patricia Smith
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The poem I nominated to do my assignment on was “What it’s like to be a Black Girl (For those who don’t know)”. The poem is written by Patricia Smith. During my reading of “What it’s like to be a Black Girl (For those who don’t know)”, the three literary elements in the poem that I came across that was engaging were the tone, symbolism, and .out of all the poems I read this week this poem evoke some feelings in me. Therefore I am going with a descriptive approach to my response.
As a young black woman I felt some type of way even a little depreciated by the tone that this artist convey in this poem. When I read the poem the young lady speaks about being a black girl as if its something negative. It was as if she was forever trying to be