Fri. Oct. 13, 2017: Poetry Analysis (and additional reading

Today, you were given the reading "Africville Forever" and the poem "We are Africville." Please read the first one BEFORE analyzing ("Before," "During," and "After") the poem in order to get the context. This is due for Tuesday's class.
If you were not here, look up Africville Canada. You will need the context to understand the poem. I have pasted the poem itself below.

We are Africville

We are Africville

We are the dispossessed Black of the land

creeping within shadows

                                                with life

with pride

with memories

into the place made for us

creeping with pain away from our home

carrying, always carrying

Africville on our backs

in our hearts

in the face of our child and our anger.

I am Africville

says a woman, child, man at the homestead site;

This park is green; but

Black, so Black with community.

I talk Africville

to you

and to you

until it is both you and me

till it stands and lives again

till you face and see and stand on its life and its forever Black past

No house is Africville.

No road, no tree, no well.

Africville is man/woman/child in the street and heart Black

Halifax,

the Prestons, Toronto.

Wherever we are, Africville,

you and we axe that Blackpast homeground.

We mourn for the burial of our houses, our church, our roads;

but we wear Our Africville face and skin and heart.

For all the world.

For Africville.

- Maxine Tynes