The Meaning Of The Rose That Grew From Concrete

For this essay I will be comparing and contrasting two poems. The poems I will talk about are The Rose that Grew from Concrete by Tupac Shakur. The second one is Fire and Ice by Robert Frost.

The Rose that Grew from Concrete is written by Tupac Shakur. He uses symbolism of the rose to talk about his life in the ghetto.The rose is the man and the concrete is the ghetto. A rose can’t grow in concrete, and it’s very hard to survive the hard life of the ghetto. A person from the ghetto might have difficulty making something out of themselves because they only see crime. “Proving nature’s law is wrong it learned how to walk without feet.” He says that because he grew up and people didn’t think he could be as successful as he was. He proved them