{"id":768,"date":"2022-09-15T22:41:45","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T02:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/?p=768"},"modified":"2022-09-15T22:41:45","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T02:41:45","slug":"b-as-in-boy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/2022\/09\/15\/b-as-in-boy\/","title":{"rendered":"B as in Boy"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the poem <\/span>Prelude to Bruise<\/span><\/i>, there are many instances of repetition. There is especially a lot with the words broke\/broken, boy, and with the letter B in general. Even the setting of this poem takes place in Birmingham. The word boy is also repeated numerous times and led me to think of how for many years, and even for some still today, black men would commonly be referred to as \u201cboy\u201d as yet another implicit way of white people expressing their feelings of superiority to them. The words mine and your(s) are also repeated many times and, I believe, are a focal point of the poem. This wording emphasizes the \u201cus vs them\u201d mentality even more and expresses the division between groups. An overall feeling of \u201c<\/span>your<\/span><\/i> pain, <\/span>your <\/span><\/i>suffering, and <\/span>your <\/span><\/i>submission is what <\/span>I<\/span><\/i> profit off of and how <\/span>I<\/span><\/i> stay in power\u201d is prevalent throughout Jones\u2019 poem and a crucial idea I interpreted after my first reading. At the end of the poem, the \u201cbegin, again, bend\u201d(22) made it seem like this is a cycle that will continue over and over again and will not break, whether that be from lack of control by the speaker or the overly inflated amount of control by an external force. Overall, I think these lines are about the division and constructed assignment of superiority and inferiority instilled in society\u2019s views of race. This poem vividly portrays the extent of which physical, verbal, and emotional violence were used against Black Americans in an attempt to keep this order.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In the poem Prelude to Bruise, there are many instances of repetition. There is especially a lot with the words broke\/broken, boy, and with the letter B in general. Even the setting of this poem takes place in Birmingham. The word boy is also repeated numerous times and led me to think of how for … Continue reading B as in Boy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4743,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[344620],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fall-2022"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/lgbtqlit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}