Colibri | Describing the Horrors of Virtual Genocide and Destruction of a Culture
In the
following essay, Hill suggests that the horrors of
virtual genocide and destruction of a culture are
made all the more poignant by the soft, beautiful
imagery and low-key voice that Espada uses to describe
them.
Quite often, poets who want to use their creative skills and poetic inspirations to make social or political statements do so in harsh, “loud” language that seems to shout at the reader in anger and protest. Sometimes the words are meant to shock, whether by means of the brutal or explicit subjects they describe or by being the taboo four-letter kind, and the desired results are to rile the reader into feeling what the poet feels, believing what the poet believes. Sometimes these kinds of poems work. Consider, for instance, Allen Ginsberg’s muchheralded anthem of the Beat Movement,...
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