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Beyond the Words

Beyond the Words
Imagery can be used in many different ways to help develop themes or ideas within poems or prose. Themes and ideas developed in poetry, by imagery, can allow the reader to think of things that they could have never possibly fathomed by themselves. A writer can make people change their idea on an issue or value that exist in their own lives with just the use of extremely powerful, moving words in a four-line stanza. Four lines may seem short, but when a reader sees a poem like Langston Hughes’s,“Harlem [Dream Deferred],” with only eleven lines, the length of a poem does not seem as important when the poem has such a strong, powerful theme. Hughes provides his readers with an idea of what might happen if a person does not try to persevere through hardships and postpones their dream. In Maya Angelou’s poem,“Still I Rise,” the idea of persevering through anything and having the courage to persevere shines through as a theme she tries relentlessly to ...

Posted by: Asare Mabel

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