Breaking Down Of A Poem
Chi Hoang
Mr. Varbel
English 1B
15 January 2008
The issue of racial discrimination has become societal norm in America. Poets like Sherman Alexie show that the injustice still exists. Born in 1966 to the tribe of Spokane/Coeur d’Alene, he suffered a great deal of discrimination against him throughout his childhood because of his Native American culture and an illness of hydrocephalus. He has seen the ugly face of racism and often speaks about it through his works about the prejudice that is accepted and current in America’s past and present. One of his poems, “Capital Punishment,” is a narration of a cook preparing the last meal for an “Indian killer.”
Within its fifty-eight of mostly two-line stanzas, themes of race and capital punishment emerge from the poem. The narrator says that “It’s mostly the dark ones/ who are forced to sit in the chair/ especially when white people die” (lines 6-8), indicating the injustice that is presently going on. The man who......
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