In the poem A Very Simple Wish, the speaker uses the motifs of balance, similes/metaphors, and images of violence/neglect[ion] to prove her position of trying to draw attention to the hatred within the audience (the world). The speaker begins the poem with “i want to write an image like a log-cabin quilt pattern and stretch it across all the lonely people who just don’t fit in”. This implies that the speaker wants to create a symbol (which in this case would be a mobile mural) that represents all the misfits who have been casted out. A stylistic device in which the speaker has picked up is also evident in stanza one whereas the “I” is lowercase instead of being capitalized. The grammatical error is intentional symbolizing that she is not “big” enough to cure the world on her own and that she would need help from many. Later Giovanni writes “we shall all lose our eyes since we cannot even distinguish the good from the evil.” Aside from the other historical poems the speaker has written, although this particular one doesn’t reveal certain historical events, it does however represent them. Giovanni is speaking about helping one another and how neglecting someone in a time of need is the same as violently destroying them. This particular line shows that if the world fails to realize this, then we would all be in deep trouble. The speaker concludes her poem with the stanza beginning with “i want to make a quilt of all the patches”. It is now evident to the reader that the speaker wants to make a representation of a better “us” for motivation and she wants as many people to join in on her thoughts.
Primarily,I feel that this is an awesome response to Giovanni's A Very Simple Wish. Giovanni's piece is appropriately analyzed to decipher the meaning of her uses of certain stylistic devices. In example, Giovanni's repitive use of gramatical errors with regards to the word 'i' has been interpreted as possibly being used in order to show Giovanni's place in the hiearchy of the life. Though it is her 'wish' to 'cure th world' it is realized that she is not 'big' enough to do so by her lonesome. I think this is a quite reasonable deduction. Furthermore, a thesis statement with regards to the purpose of the poem is clearly stated and ascertained! It is proposed that Giovanni wrote this poem to be able to convey to her audience the intense dislike that she feels toward the presence of hatred within the world. Also, this thesis is supported through the use of contextual/relevant quotations from the original text and personal opinion. I think this post accurately evokes the sense of what Giovanni was trying to exhibit in her poem A Very Simple Wish.
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