Society and Culture

Question 1

Poems to look over from the book “Don’t Call Us Dead” by Danez Smith:

Summer, Somewhere

Seroconversion

Recklessly

Litany with blood all over

Crown

Every day is a funeral and a miracle

Not an elegy

After reviewing these poems, find some texts or specific lines of each poems and discuss them briefly in regards to “Critical Race Theory” which examines society and culture through the categorizations of race, law, and power. It recognizes that racism is institutional___engrained in the very fabric of American society.

Question 2

Write a poem that refers to the five senses and is about a hayride(object) with the emotion of fear(tone). We have to write this poem because we rolled a dice and which ever number we got corresponded to the style of the poem, object, and tone.