The readings this week poetry is not a luxury by Audrey lorde and james t stewart’s the development of the black revolutionary war. In this text, Audre Lorde discusses poetry. Not poetry in terms of rhyming words or specific stanzas, as white literature frames it, but poetry as a mode of communicating and accessing our emotions. Stewart dicucess the revolution of black arts. Not in lamesmen terms n the way that African-Americans saw themselves and clearly understood that this new model must originate within the Black community.According to Lorde and Stewart both of their stories support the narritve that blacks should follow their own models and support each other and able to roduce quality work that is not reflectant of white counterpart.Lorde and Stweart expresses remorseful and aggressive tones to analyze loyalty, obligation and …show more content…
According to Lorde , she argues that emotions are left by the wayside, and are viewed merely in terms of our ability to think and produce. For women of color, however, poetry is vital for survival and for thinking of new ways of being and striving for justice in the world. For example the text states “For each of us women,there is a dark place within,where hidden and grown our true spirit rises, “beuitiful/and tough as a chestnut/stanchions against (y)our nightmare/” and of importance.(Lorde644)”Shes expressing that women get put into a box that they shouldn’t be. Women have to constantly prove themselves, this narritve is still prevalent in modern society from job pay to credibility in certain industries. Lorde was aslo elaborating on feels as though white American has this percepetion of African americans definition of poetry is. “the white