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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by Thomas Eliot is stream of consciousness put in the form of the poem. It presents random thoughts of Alfred Prufrock, the protagonist of the poem. These random thoughts give an impression about the life of Alfred, his mentality and way of thinking. He is concerned with the things he did not have time to do and things he did not dare to express.
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse (Eliot 45-48)
Alfred Prufrock speaks about little importance of his life. He thinks that he has spent a lot of time in vain and that his actions can not change anything.
In his Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town Cummings manipulates syntax and grammar in order to pass his ideas to the readers. He changes the word order and changes grammatical function of the words but still he save the meaning behind the words and this enables his readers to get his ideas. In his poem he speaks about a person who differed from the other people and about his relations with the only woman who understood him.
when by now and tree by leaf
she laughed his joy she cried his grief
bird by snow and stir by still
anyone’s any was all to her (Cummings)
The author uses syntax as an artistic mean. It helps to express his ideas and to underline main themes. Syntax helps to create contrast between Anyone (the protagonist of the poem) and other people, it underlines to which extend they are different. It also helps to show the depth of feelings between Anyone and Noone.
In his poem There Are Black Jimmy Santiago Baca describes the life and discrimination in prison. He describes atrocity and discrimination prisoners have to stand every day. The fate of innocent prisoners is even worse. He describes how they gradually disappear and end up their lives as dust:
And the other convicts, guilty
of nothing but their born color, guilty of being innocent,
they slowly turn to dust in the nightly winds here,
flying in the wind back to their farms and cities.
In the poem named Indian Boarding School: The Runaways the author describes her experience of education in regulation camp. The poem describes how the author suffered deprived of connection with her native Indian culture. I also describes bad treatment to Indian children in regulation camp.
All runaways wear dresses, long green ones,
the color you would think shame was. We scrub
the sidewalks down because it’s shameful work (Erdrich).
The poem illustrates inhuman politics of European in India and effect it had on local population in general and children in particular.