Tone And Imagery In Nikki Giovanni's Poetry
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Nikki Giovanni uses tone and imagery in her poems.Each poem Nikki Giovanni writes has a different tone and imagery.Nikki Giovanni express her tone in each poem. Nikki Giovanni also uses figurative language in her poems.If she didn’t have tone in her poems, it will be hard for the reader to understand the poems.
“Poetry” is one the poems that Giovanni wrote. Poetry is about how some people don’t understand poetry and what poetry is to poets. Also in the poem Giovanni talks about how poetry can be all of different things to poets. For example in the poem line 3 and 4 “gentle as a teardrop, strong like a eye”.Giovanni is trying to say is the poetry can be quiet and loud.Giovanni sacrifice everything for poetry. For example “to compose a poem