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Why might the same writer choose to use dialect for “When Malindy Sings” and standard English for “We Wear the Mask”? Who is speaking in the poems? Who is the audience for the poem? Would the poems be as effective if they were written in standard English instead of dialect, and vice versa?
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Name: Brianna White
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The author might have choose to use dialect for “When Malindy Sings” and standard english for “We wear the mask” because, I think that he choose to use dialect for “When Malindy Sings” because he probably wanted to show readers where he came from and that not everybody speaks the same. I think that he used standard english for “We wear the Mask” because sometimes it’s appropriate to use proper english and the author wanted to expressed that in the poem. The speaker in the poems is the author speaking from his point of view I think because he’s speaking from his experience. The audience for the poems is for teens and adults because the language in the poems are more complex and hard to understand for children. If the poems were written in dialect I think that they would be more effective because they would be easier to understand as in the words and structure of the poem. Also the language wouldn’t be so complex so maybe the audience could change from teens to younger teens I think.
Summer Ruff
DeleteThe author chose to use proper Grammer because the feeling he was trying to give off required him to do so. As for speaking with a heavy for the second poem, he wanted to try and make it feel more peronalized. He wanted people t know those words came directly from his heart. I believe he used both ways of speaking to show where he came from and where he is today.
Lakeyta Bouknight
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I believe the writer chose to use dialect to show that these people were in slavery and they are uneducated black people because they do not use proper English you use slang. In When Malindy Sings it seems as if the mother or grandmother is the speaker of the household because how she is controlling and demanding for things to be done and complaining about everything like a parent does. The speaker in We Wear the Mad to me I believe it's female that's going through a lot deep down and only want people to see when she is okay she never wants anyone to think that she is down or hurt or whatever is wrong with her deep inside. I also believe her audience is other that can relate most with her not really certain crowd because any age or race can fit there shoes in this problem it often happens a lot that's why many people walk around suffering from anxiety because they hold there feelings in. Another thing about We Wear the Mask is the way the poem is written in codes it doesn't get straight to the point it's a lot of phrases that you have to break down to understand what they mean but I feel like that's the point of a poem to put little phrases that can mean big ideas or can make you imagine bigger pictures with little phrases that may take time to figure out. I also believe if it was written just in regular boring plain text then yes it would be easier to understand but I believe a poem is suppose to make you think. In the other poem I think one of the main purposes is to show how blacks in slavery talk so we can picture there accents and can see exactly how they talk with improper English so if this poem was in English I wouldn't of been able to make that prediction about slavery so yes it is important that this poem be written in slang.
The author might have choose to use dialect for "When Malindy Sings" and standard English for "When wear the mask" because, I think that he want the reader to know where he is come from and how he feeling and also not all people speak the same. He is using standard English in "We wear the mask" because the author don't know who are and how they really think of you in person and how you are hiding your pain from people
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The author chose this dialect to show the dialect of a uneducated former slave. The dialect shows how even thought the slave does not have a proper English , he is able to provide intelligence beyond comprehension. In we wear the dialect wouldn't work because the whole point is to put on a mask and use the proper english. I think dialect in When Milindy sings is perfect because it can show how he thinks of himself
Rob E.
ReplyDelete-He wanted to show off his other side
-Also Wanted to connect with cultures
- Wanted to include his lingo with his poems
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- He wanted to show the youth how his language his spoken and broke down.
the two different poems we was reading in class was we wear the mask and malindy sings to different people they use to different language show the different places and things
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I think the author uses both dialects to show his African heritage with him writing in a perspective as a slave in "When Malindy Sings" since his parents were slaves and his American born one as an intelligent African-American in "We Wear The Mask". I think that mask poem is him talking about hiding his true identity/nationality as a African and he is afraid to show it over fear of white people not accepting him as a person.
DiAndre McNatte
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The author most likely chose to use dialect in "When Malindy Sings" because of the time period in which those people spoke like that and vice verse for "We Wear The Mask". In "When Malindy Sings" I think that it is during slavery therefore it's a slave speaking. In "We Wear The Mask" I believe that it might be set in the late 1800's/ early 1900's so a cultured black person might be speaking. The audience would obviously have to be African-Americans.
Shanice Kidd
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I think the author made "We Wear The Mask" and "Malindy Sings" so people can relate to what he means in those two dialects. The author comes from a family of slaves and when he made "Malindy Sings" he spoke the way he saw his parents talked so if others spoke the same they could relate to that poem. For 'We Wear The Mask" he spoke in a way he grew up learning making others that spoke the way he did they can relate as well. I think the poem wouldn't be as effective because people wouldn't be as interested or intrigued as the poem that used broken English. Also you wouldn't get the history knowledge behind the "Malindy Sings" as the other one.
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The author used different dialects in the passages "When Malindy Sings" and “We Wear The Mask” because he wanted to show different cultures and how they should never be forgotten or they should be respected. The author may have wanted to touch on the history of his culture and shine a light on it. The author could also be showing his intelligence and how he goes against the history of African Americans and education.
Who is the audience for the poem? I believe the audience for the poem are teens to early adults. I say this because I believe the author is trying to show people in this age group that you can change the way you speak, no matter where you come from. I believe the author is also trying to show us a history lesson to how people back in slavery times talked. The author cant be talking to little kids and pre teens because they wouldn't really understand and care. So to sum it up I believe the author is talking too older teens and early adults.
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Paul Laurence Dunbar might have chosen to make the dialect different in the poems because of the audience of people he was directing the poems to. We Wear The Mask might be directed to educated people. Whereas, When Malindy Sings was made for people that may not have been for educated or for people from a specific place like a Southern state. The way that When Malindy Sings sounds makes is sound like it was written for people for the South.
Kailah Dennis
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The south or might have chosen to use dialect for his poems for many reasons. One reason is he might of wanted to sound different from other poets and he also probably wanted people to really think deep about his poem as they are reading. I think the audience of the poem is to African Americans because of the different words and slang in his poems to be different and sound more creative. I do not think the poem would be as effective if he did not use broken English because it would be boring and not as interesting as it is with broken English. I think he was telling his experiences in different ways so sound more educated and for people to really think about what he dealt with in life.
Starr Little
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The author used dialect in the poem When Malindy Sings because of the time period he grew up in. He wasn't that educated so it's broken English. It was around slavery time and that's how blacks talked then down south. As in We Wear the Mask is the early 1900’s. Talking to more educated blacks. They're both talking to African Americans, just different time periods.
Jazmin Wright 4th
ReplyDeleteThe author used dialect in the poem "when Malinda Sings" because of his time period of his life and how he grown up. He didn't go to school so he wasn't that escaped so it's in broken English hard for us to understand. Around that time period slavery was still around and that how our people down south talked. In the early 1900's "we wear the mask" is wrote, talking to more people of our colored to be educated. They are both talking to people of our color just in different time periods in life.
Interesting thought, but Dunbar was born free in the North and was an educated man. Why might he have written "When Malindy Sings" the way he did with that knowledge?
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The author might have choose to use dialect for “When Malindy Sings” the way he did because he wants to connect with his roots. He wants to talk the way he did during his childhood . Talking in a way the people back home could understand as that's where he originated from. Then in the next poem, he talks differently and more propor some may say because he has a different audience, or it might be because that's how he was talking as he got older and more mature.
Madison Ray
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I feel as though the author does not use dialect to tell others abouot how he feels. He is directing that poem to African americans and white people. But in the other poem he uses dialect to direct it towards African americans only. The dialect is possibly written so that black people can understand it more than white people.
Shawnice Washington
ReplyDeleteThe author wrote in dialect in " When Malindy Sings" because he wanted to tell it from a salve way. Many slaves were uneducated and did not know how to read or write at the time. This is showing it in a different way . It is putting the audience in a different state of mind . Also have them not just thinking the norm.
Hawa Turay
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In my opinion, I assume the author wrote in dialect to really bring connect with people of all backgrounds. At that time I would assume a lot of African Americans didn't get the privilege of a full blown education. Writing in dialect will help those who can't read get a fuller understanding on what's really going on. If he wouldn't have wrote it in dialect then readers wouldn't have even given this thought. Readers don't really take in the time period of the poem and apply it to the content.
Hadia Diallo
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The author had choose to use dialect for “ When Malindy Sings” and used regular english for “We wear the mask” because I think the author wanted to get his point across in two different types of english. He wanted to show his background and where he came from. To show his experience in the 1900s and how his parents speaks broken english. The audience toward the poem is mostly for adult because it’s hard to understand. The poem “When Malindy Sings” show more of his background and broken english
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I think the author Paul Dunbar choose to write the two poems in difference dialects to show the differences about his lifestyle and habitat. For example I think through his first poem he was obviously speaking how he normally writes poetry assuming that he's educated which one can do due to the dialect of the scripture. The way the second poem is structured tells me he's somewhat trying to describe the cultural background and dialect of his cultural group and more so himself. Comparing these to pieces of poetry one can grasp two different views of Paul’s life and past experiences. We can also infer Paul is skilled at writing different types of poetry due to the abnormal speech difference between both passages. Therefore, in conclusion that is how and why I think Paul Dunbar choose to write two different pieces of poetry the way he did.
Name: Muiyen Warner
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The author might have choosed to use dialect for “When Malindy Sings” and standard english for “We Wear The Mask” because, he chose to use dialect for “When Malindy Sings” to show readers where he came from, the difference back then and that not everybody speaks the same. I think that he used standard english for “We Wear The Mask” because it’s appropriate to use proper english and the author wanted to show that through the poem. The speaker in the poems is the author speaking from his point of view I think because he’s speaking from his personal experience. The audience for these poems are teens and adults because the language in the poems are more complex and hard to understand for children. If the poems were written in dialect I think they would be easier to understand such as the words and structure of the poem. Also the language wouldn’t be so complicated & the audience could change and grow.
Markwon Williams
ReplyDeleteI think the author chose to write in dialect in "When Malindy Sing" Because it was about something that happen in his childhood. In "We the mask" it was standard because he was in a time period when he was a adult.
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ReplyDeleteI feel like the poem would still be effective maybe at bit easy if it was written in standard english. I say this because maybe it wold be easier to understand. The audience would be able to read it better. I also feel like the broken english plays a big part in the poem. The point of the poem was to use that type of english, so it probably wouldn't be the same without that language.
I think the reason the author wrote " When Malindy Sing" and We Wear the Mask because the author wanted us to see things in two different ways. The first poem " We Wear the Mask" was connecting with other African Americans and expressing what he been through. But in the other poem " When Malindy Sings" he wants us to see how others had to deal with it and make us think about it in a different language. My reasoning for saying that is because as we read the poem it was difficult for us to understand and made us wonder and questions like why this whats that?
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Paul Dunbar used dialect “When Malindy Sings” he wanted to show the readers where he came from. Also the way they use to talk to each other, not everyone speaks the same as him. This was a way for him to express himself, the broken english was effective. For “we wear the mask “ he used english because he wanted us to reflect and understand what the poem meant. The differences in the two languages was to show off the cultures. In these poem he is speaking from his point of view. The audience for this poem was towards teens and adults.
Isata Barrie
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The reason why the author choose a dialect for one poem and not the other is because he wants to show his readers a different side of him, a side that will kind of confuse but will interest them all. Most likely a older version of him and how he grew up. His slang in ''When Malindy Sings'' really shows all of us that its more than just english or being ''American'' . Moreover the the poem "We Wear Mask'' is more of a sophisticated type of poem, more educated like. The author uses a lot of high vocabulary to get readers thinking.
Amiyah Smith
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The author may have chosen to use dialect for “When Malindy Sings” to give some insight on the person speaking in the poem. The dialect which is broken English, gives us some insight because it tells readers that the person in the poem may have been uneducated. Uneducated due to segregational times or something of the sort. It also may just be a different style to give some insight on the average black personal during this time. The dialect also may provide a sense familiarity for people of the same ethnic background who can actually understand this poem and recognize the dialect.
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I think the author Paul Dunbar uses 2 different dialects between both his poem to show the difference in which way he can speak. Back then usually African Americans were signaled out by how they speak. Sometimes some people believe that blacks are uneducated because of how the speak but Dunbar shoes how educated he can be and how his dialect does not determine his education level.
Janelle Wells-Bradley
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In this poem "we wear the mask" it is a poem about oppressed African Americans forced to hide their pain behind happiness. The speaker of the poem is a black person and he's trying to let people know that we wear mask to hide our true feelings. The mask aren't helping anyones situation. The audience is I believe for the people who weren't in their shoes to understand times were changing and were difficult. Also they had difficult times coping with the changes.
Najai Watson
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Mr. Dan
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Why might the same writer choose to use dialect for “When Malindy Sings” and standard English for “We Wear the Mask”?
The author might've used a different type of language with both poems to set two different moods. “When Malindy Sings” was probably meant to have a calm understanding mood to express his background and life. “We Wear the Mask” was probably meant to have a focused mood since it was written in standard english. The audience of the poem is probably African Americans for “When Malindy Sings” because of the type of language he chose to use. He used a lot of slang words and broken words which African Americans often use as well.
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I think the author choose this two show the readers new things also to try to make some type of explanation of why the poems are written this way. Also the readers are the ones receiving this message because it gives us more information on poems that already is giving us useful insight. Finally this would be better in standard English because in dialect it would be harder to try to understand the writing but in regular English we would have a better understanding on what the author is trying to say but I can understand why it's in dialect to give the readers a different perspective in a interesting two poems.
The author might choose the use dialect for “When Malindy Sings” is because the author is trying to show that this conversation is how the people in her house communicated. This is reflection of his roots as this was once his life before, but now he becomes more sophisticated and learns more proper english in his next piece “We Wear the Mask”. In this next piece it is written in standard english and in format that a educator writes which shows how he cultivated himself to learn and appreciate God as he talks in the piece about God. He probably did this to show where came from and how he evolved to make himself better. He expressed his roots to remind the readers he didn't forget where he came from as this piece is significant to his life.
ReplyDeleteI feel like the author decided to use dialect to write one poem and standard english for the other because he wanted he wanted readers to react in certain ways. For example in “We Wear The Mask” he wants us to analyze the uses of figurative language and break down the meaning to a more literal understanding whereas in “When Malindy Sings” it's confusing because it's not something i'm used to seeing. In both I think it is an African American female or male because one relates to slavery and the other seems like it's talking about songs they sing or play like the slave songs or at a jazz club. The audience could be anyone but I think it's like for highschool because not everyone can analyze a poem. I think “When Malindy sings” would change because the dialect that he chose almost makes me picture everything being said.
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The same writer could have choose to use the same dialect for the two poems because he could be showing that their are two different ways to tell the same story and to also show how language back in the day was written. The audience for both poems could be African Americans since it's mostly about African American traditions.These two poems would be as effective if they were written in English because the same meaning of the stories wouldn't change. They still would be expressing the African American traditions and what blacks had to go through back in the day or just people in general.
Aziza Harmon
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Would the poems be as effective if they were written in standard English instead of dialect, and vice versa?
I believe this poem would not be as effective if it was written in standard English. I say this because the dialect used in the poem made it more interesting, I think that the author used the dialect to get a point across or directed it to a specific audience. The second poem would not be effective if the author used dialect. The poem was easy to understand and very enjoyable. I don’t think this poem was directed toward a specific audience because it was very easy to understand. But If they were vice versa the dialect or standard English wouldn’t change the poem's overall meaning.
Omar Harcum
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The author wanted to clearly reenter his growing up stages when he wrote "When Malindy sings". His roots dated back a long time but this particular poem was disorganized because of the based century he camed from. When the author of these poems started to developed more proper english, he began to write much more organized poems such as "We wear the mask". This poem is a great form on how he switch up his tone of dialect when he grew more wiser.
I think that the author used dialect for Malindy sings rather than we wear the mask to show how the reader should interpret the poem. The author is speaking in the poems. In Malindy sings, the audience is geared more towards people who lived in the south of the late 1800, while we wear the mask is geared towards people with a higher educations and can understand the vocabulary. I do not think the poems would be as effective if the dialectic of Malindy sings was switched with the standard english of we wear the mask and vise versa because then it will take away the integrity of the poems.
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The same writer chose to use dialect for "When Malindy sings" and standard English for "We wear the mask" to show different ways how to tell a story . These poems are written by Laurence Dunbar. I feel as thought that "when malindy sings" is for those back in the ancient years, maybe during slavery times. I think "we wear the mask" audience is now a days, in recent times because the English is proper and up to date . I feel as though that if both poems were written in English there would be no significance of "When malindy sings". Maybe it could be when ,he wasn't very literate he wrote he Malindy peom and as he started progressing with proper English then he decided to wrote a better more understanding poem.
Kanimba Diakite
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I think the Author chose dialect for "When Maloney Sings" Poem becuase he wanted to show where he came from meaning how his people use to talk. For the "We wear the Mask" Poem it's different when he speaks standard English because in this case the black people our wearing the Mask so he showing it through his writing. In the 1 st poem the Author and his people are wearing a mask talking standard English for the white people to see. In the Second poem he speaks broken English and the audience are the black people. I personally do not think the poems would of been as effective if the dialects were switched.
Iveyon Gardiner
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I believe that the author's purpose for using different dialects in both of the poems was for effect. For example in the first poem he uses the dialect of black people back then to put yourself in their shoes, verses in the first poem he is just being informative about one of the struggles that blacks went through. Although in the second poem he speaks in the dialect of African Americans back then I believe the intended audience could have been white people. He could have wanted them to be able to visualize being in his shoes better so he used his dialect. On the contrary he may have just written that way for black people to read it better, I'm not sure. All-in-all I believe that the purpose of we wear the mask was to inform and when Maloney sings was to put yourself in blacks shoes you could not do so without dialect.
Anthony Harrison
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In the poem " We Wear Masks" and "When Maloney Sings", Paul Laurence Dunbar has 2 sides of himself. In "We Wear Masks", he shows his educated and more studious side as to when he writes. He uses his dialect and vocabulary structure in this poem. In his poem "When Maloney Sings", in this poem, he uses broken language. This language is ossibly his cultural language has grown accustomed to it.
I like the idea that in "When Malindy Sings" he is using "cultural language. Why might he have chosen to do so with that poem and not the other?
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"Who is the audience for the poem?" I think the audience for the poem would be regular people just like you but in the poem it explains how to overcome the everyday situations of the world
I think the authors purpose is to grab the readers attention to explain the poem about how it start to how it ended. Angel ponzo
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ReplyDeleteI think the author chose to use dialect in the poem to grab readers attention and to give those who can relate to it something to relate to. He also probably chose to write in dialect so that the audience who clearly is the people who went through the same thing can understand how it felt and writing it how he did probably set off a connection between them. He also could have wrote it in that way so that those who didn't come from where he did can understand how he talked and that those kind of people were still smart.
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The author wrote two poems to two audiences. The two audiences was African Americans and whites. He showing us how a black persons would write and how a white person would write. That show us the education level was different for people.
The poems would not be as effective as if the were written in standard English or the other way around. I say that this would not be as effective because the message would just come across as a regular message if you kept it in regular English. If you kept it in regular English the poem would not allow the readers to be challenged and think about who this is really speaking to. When you change the way something is written it makes the readers think and wonder who the poem is talking about or what type of audience it is targeting. That is why I think the poem would not be as effective if the way they were written was in just English.
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The writer most likely used dialect for one and stand English for the other because there are two differ types of poems. Different poems requires a different delivery. Also, he could've wrote in dialect in one of the poems to capture emotion, or to make the reader connect to it more. Even though you couldn't really understand it, it makes the reader think harder when trying to figure out the meaning.
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Who is the audience for the poem? Would the poems be as effective if they were written in standard English instead of dialect, and vice versa?
The audience for the poem was for African Americans I feel like. The dialect was some type of Caribbean but I feel like Jamaican probably. The poem really wouldn't sound right if it didn't have the form of dialect. The poem is more effective with the Jamaican dialects cause black people can relate to it more. So there for the intended audience would be black people.
Tierra Spencer
ReplyDeleteI think the writer chose different dialects to show the difference in time. Also growth because in slavery time, African Americans had little English because they were not educated. So because of that, their English was off but then in the other poem, there are more structured words. Also I think that it was for visualization as well. I think he wanted readers to be a little confused about the dialect so they can think deeply about what he is trying to say.
Amirah Thompson
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The poems would be more effective if they were written in standard English because the audience would understand what's going on more clearer than dialect. Dialect has to be thought about as you read because it's so hard to understand. Standard English also has to be thought about but not as much as dialect. Although the message would be more clearer but it will also be blunt because they're getting right to the point instead of having you think about the answers. English is easier to understand then dialect.
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I feel that the reason the author made 2 different dialects for the 3 poems is because they each have a different meaning and story to them. If the poem “When Malindy Sings” did not have dialect then it would have the same effectiveness to it. I believe that the author is speaking in the poems.
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I feel like the reader is trying to make different dialects of the poems and reactions. When Malindy sings shows a different type of emotion portrayed in the poem rather than we wear the mask.The author us trying to get us to understand where he is coming from the different background he is from and the era the poem was written in.
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I think the author uses dialect for the stories because he wants you to use context clues to connect what you don't know to things you do know so you can figure out what the story is talking about.Also to questions the words that we don't know and use the words around them so you can figure out what it means and that will start to open the story up for you.He uses standard English because the poem was more to provoke your thoughts so you can know what the whole story is about.The person that is speaking in the poem is a black young man. The audience of the poem is supposed to catch the young black people eyes. I think they would be effective just not as effective the author knew what he was doing when he picked how he wrote the stories so he could catch are eyes and make us think of what is going on through the story and how the are affecting his life.
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The author wrote these two story to show all thw white how much pain we been threw that we had to hide our real selves that we wear the mask to keep us from crying and keeping our heads down cause no lie a lot of people wear the mask today still cause they don't want to show people the true pain they go threw so they hid it from everybody and keep it to themselves. He wrote the other one in a different language because he also want other people around the world to let them know that back then slavery really was a hard time and everything we been threw was painful beatings,crying ,and hanging folks was crazy a little boy had to watch his own dad get beat by his slave master. All blacks want to show that we hide our selve cause we been threw it all to get where we are today
the author might used dialect for one poem and not the other because he want us to understand where he come from.
ReplyDeleteI think the author chose to do two different dialects because they wanted to show the difference in time also when you use the two different dialects the reader might take it in differently.
ReplyDeleteThe author may have used two different dialects to show the way some people may interpret it depending who they are and where there from,also the author wanted to show the feeling of the culture through the words in his poem.
ReplyDeleteThe author chooses to speak n this tone and this story is for the reader to get a feel of how the people use to talk back then vs now.
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The author might use two different dialect to help readers understand where the author is from. Also to help reader understand the history of the stories that the author have written. The speaker of the poems is the author. He is telling his opinions. The audience of the poems is younger people and older people to help them understand his opinion. The poem would be more effective if the poem was written in dialect. I say that because dialect explains how it was back in that time and adds more meaning to the poems.
The author might choose two different dialects the write a poem in because he wants his true culture to be expressed in one of them which shows his real background and chose the standard dialect for the other for people who cant understand his culture and for the people from the outside looking in.
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