As a high school student, I hated english. And yet we were forced to partake in a poetry unit which I despised even more. Unfortunately, we had to write our own poetry. So I rambled on with similes and metaphors about the sun and random stuff to make my teacher happy, making me sound like a poetic genious.
I got it back with a high 90s grade, my teacher praising my deep meaning, and my comparisons to all this crazy stuff I had no idea what he was talking about. I honestly wrote the poem for the grade. I made it sound good with "poem" like phrases. This goes to show that sometimes, people interpret things in different ways. I honestly had no intentions of creating such a meaingful poem, but only wrote about a summer day, fluffing it up for my teacher.
In the modern world, everyone wants to over analyze everything. From art, to books, to movies... What if we just took these things as point blank, what they first appear to be. I don't believe that everything is done with an underlying purpose, and if one is looking for stereotypes, racism, ect, they will probably find it, whether purposely put there, or coincidential jucstaposition. However, that makes these over thinking viewers consciencely aware of racism. Wouldn't it technically be considered not racist to not even see (or make oneself see) racism everywhere? OR IS it this the whole concept of new racism??
I personally think that everyone is too caught up with their instance to analyze. Maybe it was purposeful, the black man and the horse, or maybe it was an artistic point of view. You will never know what the creator was thinking...just as my teacher did not realize my poem was purely created for a grade.
~Leah Wz.
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