14-3 Nikki Giovanni’s Poetry

Giovanni’s Poetry Rosa is about black childhood. Black love is black wealth.  They see love being very powerful and they are rich not from money or material things, but from love from each family member. People shouldn’t feel sorry for the black kids. They have love from their mom even though their dad is a heavy drinker. They had good holidays with their family, even birthdays were good. People that had become famous and moved from the poverty stricken places didn’t talk of how happy they were as a child, even though they didn’t have in-door toilets. Basically some people don’t for get where they came from, however some people do. Giovanni doesn’t look at life as being sad and wants the white people not to write of their bad times because they were quite happy. Barbecue was fixed in a large tub for the people of Chicago, but the others took baths in the same tub where the water felt really good to a kid. Their father had to sell his stock and it was hard for their mom to see her dreams be sold with them. I guess it makes you think was it because their farther drunk so much and how they also fought. I am not Lonely was a very good poem. The girl wasn’t scared as she had been. No bad dreams as she once use to have. I would say the girl has turned into a woman. Some one she used to know and sleep with was in her bed and she thought they were going to leave and after they did she got use to her big bed and being all alone. She had a feeling they would leave and they did, which she has adapted to be a lone in her big bed to roll around in all by her-self.