HistoryLesson
History Lesson by Natasha Trethewey
1. At first, Natasha Trethewey is giving a description of a girl on a beach in Mississippi with her grandmother, all seems normal. Its only when you reach towards the end, that it gives you the change in feeling. The date was 1970; the perspective changes completely, then showing the struggles of equality.
2. The history lesson would have to be the struggle of equality of blacks at that time, 1970. Also, how they had to stand in the section marked colored, showing the separation. The receivers of the history lesson would have to be the readers; they are getting the insight of how it uses to be in the year 1970.
3. The poem had a majority of end-stopped lines. Having only one enjambment line break in each stanza. I believe at the point where the line break changes the sentence is, I am alone, then the line breaks, except for my grandmother.
4. The speaker is giving her memory of being at the beach and showing how there was a struggle of racism. Also, how she and her grandmother still were able to be smiling even through the struggle.
5. At first, Natasha Trethewey is giving a description of a girl on a beach in Mississippi with her grandmother, all seems normal. Its only when you reach towards the end, that it gives you the change in feeling. The date was 1970; the perspective changes completely, then showing the struggles of equality.
6. The history lesson would have to be the struggle of equality of blacks at that time, 1970. Also, how they had to stand in the section marked colored, showing the separation. The receivers of the history lesson would have to be the readers; they are getting the insight of how it uses to be in the year 1970.
7. The poem had a majority of end-stopped lines. Having only one enjambment line break in each stanza. I believe at the point where the line break changes the sentence is, I am alone, then the line breaks, except for my grandmother.
8. The speaker is giving her memory of being at the beach
1. At first, Natasha Trethewey is giving a description of a girl on a beach in Mississippi with her grandmother, all seems normal. Its only when you reach towards the end, that it gives you the change in feeling. The date was 1970; the perspective changes completely, then showing the struggles of equality.
2. The history lesson would have to be the struggle of equality of blacks at that time, 1970. Also, how they had to stand in the section marked colored, showing the separation. The receivers of the history lesson would have to be the readers; they are getting the insight of how it uses to be in the year 1970.
3. The poem had a majority of end-stopped lines. Having only one enjambment line break in each stanza. I believe at the point where the line break changes the sentence is, I am alone, then the line breaks, except for my grandmother.
4. The speaker is giving her memory of being at the beach and showing how there was a struggle of racism. Also, how she and her grandmother still were able to be smiling even through the struggle.
5. At first, Natasha Trethewey is giving a description of a girl on a beach in Mississippi with her grandmother, all seems normal. Its only when you reach towards the end, that it gives you the change in feeling. The date was 1970; the perspective changes completely, then showing the struggles of equality.
6. The history lesson would have to be the struggle of equality of blacks at that time, 1970. Also, how they had to stand in the section marked colored, showing the separation. The receivers of the history lesson would have to be the readers; they are getting the insight of how it uses to be in the year 1970.
7. The poem had a majority of end-stopped lines. Having only one enjambment line break in each stanza. I believe at the point where the line break changes the sentence is, I am alone, then the line breaks, except for my grandmother.
8. The speaker is giving her memory of being at the beach