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Amiri Baraka forward his radical
view in the poem The New World
by saying that he wants to dream
with purpose and well device,
the new world is only for white
and he must create new real
world for Black.
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As the people can’t
see defeat in love my
revolution is not deceitful,
my victory is inevitable.
I dream until new world
is. The new world is
bound to be born so
as to guarantee justice,
equality and indiscrimination.
For Baraka poetry is
as powerful as weapon.
Weapons are used to
destroy white domination
similarly poetry is
used to destroy discrimination.
Through this poetry,
he is trying to excite
the people for explosion.
This poem is loaded
with the message of
freedom and independence.
(New World) The speaker
says that he is ready
to lose his identity
but not for commitment;
he is ready to lose
his knowledge but not
the claim of equality. |
The speaker is confirmed to
his victory that he is not going
to be defeated. He knows the
way to fulfill his purposeful
dream, which he believes that
it doesn’t go in vain.
For speaker, New World is to
born. Baraka criticizes the
capitalistic civilization of
America after the Second World
War of 1950s and 1960s. He criticizes
corrupting bourgeois culture
values of American civilization.
The New World of Baraka is dominated
by frustration, corruption,
lust, fragmentation and miserable
condition of people. In this
world the dreams (dreams of
happiness, harmony, love etc)
turn out to be horrible conceits.
The poem depicts a picture of
modern American Waste Land where
a person who opposes evils of
civilization faces the problem
of identity. The poem has the
setting of evening in the urban
area. The time of evening implies
the American civilization after
the Second World War. The setting
which is a metropolitan city
stands for capitalism, bourgeois
culture and the images of vehicles
can be shown as the glimpse
of capitalistic culture. In
the first part of the poem he
shows the plight of worker who
are struggling around the streets.
By using “burns”
he depicts the glimpse of the
pitiable condition of working
people.
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