Poem: Preface to twenty Volume Suicide Note
Author: Amiri Baraka

Speaker: A depressed person/ father how is tired of the simplicities life
Occasion: Pre suicide
Audience: General
Purpose: To show that life is worth living
Subject: deciding his fate, to kill or not to kill
Tone: depressed, low, miserable, sad.

Literary Critic:
The poem “Preface to twenty Volume Suicide Note” by Amiri Baraka is a poem with no rhyming scheme at any point of the poem. This idea of having no rhyme in poem was an interesting choice by the author. I believe the choice to do so is a lot clearer when one sees the title of the poem in particular the words “Suicide Note.” It became clear to me that it was supposed to be a suicide note but just in the form of a poem. This poem has many different interpretations, as do all other poem. I believe this was about a father how did not see a meaning in life until he saw that he had a purpose in life, the dude to be a good father to his daughter. What makes this poem really effective is that the author paints a clear picture of the situation and makes the audience feel sympathetic, eventually getting the reader to feel what he feels.

Poem: Minstrel Man
Author: Langston Hughes

Speaker: An ambiguous person
Occasion: Ones confections to the façade they have let other to believe.
Audience: The people/person which never carried to see how the person really felt.
Purpose: To uncover ones façade.
Subject: The out cry of a person who has keep their emotions in for a very long time
Tone: angry, enthusiastic, fed up, desperate.

Personal Response:
The poem Minstrel Man by Langston Hughes does not seem contain any sort of rhyme, yet the poem does flow nicely. Yet this poem does has two sources of repetition, specifically when he says "Because my mouth/ is wide with laughter" and "You do not know." This repetition makes the poets voice much stronger, repeatedly insinuates that because the people wish, only to see her out side they do not care about what is going on in the inside. This concept has happened to me more times then I would like, especially when I work. At work I am paid to be cheerful and happy but many times I am existed and feel like being alone, inside I am striving to get out of there. When I get out of work I am back to my old self, shy and eager for peace and quite.