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A Culture Destroyed

I think that Wendy Rose wrote this poem with such feeling it seems as if she were right there through all of the troubles that here ancestors went through. I could read the poem and I can feel everything that she was feeling and I could feel every word and very sentence. When I read this poem I started to think about the trials that my ancestors had to overcome to make it this harsh world. The poem “I Expected My Skin and My Blood to Ripen” is focusing on a culture being ripped from their land and their culture being destroyed. The people focused on in this poem are not offending anybody or doing anything to make anyone hate them. They are just treated like animals.
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ways, was like slavery. Slaves were not respected. They were treated like animals and they had no way to defend themselves. Their culture was not respected and if they even spoke one word of being treated like a citizen they could be killed on the spot. Whites brought black slaves over to the US like they were imported animals. Both the natives and the slaves were not noticed as a people. It was like they did not exist (in the whites' eyes).
Rose also writes “my seeds are stepped on and crushed as if there were no future”(569). To me this means that here children were killed and buried like they had no future anyway so it was all right for them to die. Some one could also take this passage as meaning that things from her culture such as paintings and other artifacts, including their clothing, not thought to represent a culture. To the whites, these artifacts were just materiel with no meaning.
Another passage that I really felt was when Rose wrote “Would’ve put her in my ...

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Added: 4/1/2005 12:37:59 PM
Category: Poetry & Poets
Type: Premium Paper
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