Beat Me To The Change
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The American Dream is Change. Our value of fighting the system speaks loud.
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Connection Through Poetry
The Truth the Dead Know
Gone, I say and walk from church, refusing the stiff procession to the grave, letting the dead ride alone in the hearse. It is June. I am tired of being brave. We drive to the Cape. I cultivate myself where the sun gutters from the sky, where the sea swings in like an iron gate and we touch. In another country people die. My darling, the wind falls in like stones from the whitehearted water and when we touch we enter touch entirely. No one's alone. Men kill for this, or for as much. And what of the dead? They lie without shoes in their stone boats. They are more like stone than the sea would be if it stopped. They refuse to be blessed, throat, eye and knucklebone.
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Caption: I am Anne Sexton. Through her trials and troubles she spoke loud in her poems. Anne represents minorities in American society who wants to change the system. Minorities face many trials and overcome through their struggles.
Reflection of Poetry
The poem is written by the Beat Anne Sexton. Anne's trouble life and depression was voiced through her poems. Anne overcame some of her issues through poetry.
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Relation To Beat Generation
The Beat Generation is the America Dream. The people in the Beat Generation had troubled lives and expressed themselves through poetry. The American Dream is overcoming and advocating for change.
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