Why/Wise Poem Analysis

Why/Wise Analysis

This poem is about how African people were enslaved and brought to America to be slaves and this poem basically tells us to not to forget about what happen to people in Africa. The tone of this poem is emotional, frightening and gloomy.  For example he says “in the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean there’s a railroad of bones” he is talking about all the Africans that died on that boat journey that transported all the African slaves to America, he also says that “my brother the king sold me to the ghost “so what he means is that the king of Africa sold his people the slave masters/Slave owners.

I believe this was a very heart taking poem, it was very sad to think about what had happened in African & to the African people that lived there. But this poem was very truthful & informational things about what had actually happened in Africa at that time.