Write a thematic essay on Michael S. Harper’s poem, “American History”.Find a thematic statement for the poem and state and explain the litterary device of comparison used by the author to emphasize on the theme by using 3 quotations and analysig them deeply to relate to the thematic statement . Compare the four black girls blown up event with the five hundredre passage in a net .And make a link with the last passage, cant find what you cant see can you.
American HIstory
Those four black girls blown up
in that Alabama church
remind me of
five hundred
middle passage blacks,
in a net, under water
in Charleston harbor
so redcoats wouldn’t find them.
Can’t find what you can’t see
can you?
