UNIVERSIDADE FEDERAL DA BAHIA
INSTITUTO DE LETRAS
DEPARTAMENTO DE LETRAS GERMÂNICAS
DISCIPLINA: POESIA DE LÍNGUA INGLESA
Tirocínio Docente: Paula Campos
Discente: Neide Vieira
AFRO-AMERICAN POETRY
Música: SISTER ROSA
Neville Brothers
American R&B/soul/funk group
New Orleans, Louisiana.
'IN MY POEM, AND IN MY STORIES, TOO, I TRY VERY HARD
TO CREATE CHARACTERS WHO ARE SEEN AS INDIVIDUAL –
NOT ONLY AS BLACK OR WOMEN, OR WHATEVER, BUT AS A BLACK
WOMAN WITH HER OWN PARTICULAR PROBLEMS'
(RITA DOVE)
www.poetryfoundation.org/bio/rita-dove
Poetry, Author, Professor
Akron, Ohio, USA
ROSA poem
IS INCLUED IN THE ON THE BUS WITH ROSA PARKS POETRY BOOK,
ORIGINATED FROM A EXPERIENCE IN 1995 WHEN RITA DOVE AND HER
DAUGHTER, AVIVA, BORDED A BUS DURING A CONVENTION HELD IN VIRGINIA.
AVIVA LEANED OVER TO MOTHER AND WHISPERED, 'HEY WE´RE ON THE BUS
WITH ROSA PARKS', A PHRASE THAT HAUNTED DOVE INTO A 'MEDITATION ON
HISTORY AND THE INDIVIDUAL.'
Rosa Parks (1913-2005)
Detroit, USA
http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715
Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to surrender her bus
seat to a white passenger, spurring the Montgomery boycott
and other efforts to end segregation.
ROSA
How she sat there,
the time right inside a place
so wrong it was ready.
That trim name with
is dream of a bench
to rest on. Her sensible coat.
Doing nothing was the doing:
the clean flame or her gaze
carved by a camera flash.
How she stoop up
when they bent down to retrieve
her purse. That courtesy.
Poem analysis
ROSA
Antithesis:
Enjambement
Alliteration
Enjambement
- Iambic feet
- Lyric three-line in four stanzas
- Themes: Politic, Freedom,
History, Woman, Heroism.
How she sat there,
the time right inside a place
so wrong it was ready.
That trim name with
is dream of a bench
to rest on. Her sensible coat.
Doing nothing was the doing:
the clean flame or her gaze
carved by a camera flash.
How she stoop up
when they bent down to retrieve
her purse. That courtesy.
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
(1874–1963)
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173536
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
How both poem can dialogue?
The Road Not Taken
Rosa
NONCONFORMISM
19- I took the one less traveled by,
20- And that has made all the difference.
BOLD
DECISION
1- How she sat there,
2- the time right inside a place
3- so wrong it was ready.
'[…] there is always the possibility of resistance
no matter how oppressive the system.'
Michel Foucault
REFERENCES
From On the Bus with Rosa Parks (W W Norton & Co. Inc., 1999; originally published in Georgia
Review, Winter 1998), copyright © Rita Dove 2006, used by permission of the author and the publisher See more at: http://www.poetryarchive.org/poem/rosa#sthash.lBYKBtpW.dpuf
Reaske, Christopher. R., How to Analize Poetry , Departament of English, Harvard University
http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715
http://www.michel-foucault.com/quote/2012q.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JKCsZc37esU
http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173536