step:1 Black life matters.

step 2: criminal injustice police are targeting the black women who not doing anything,

step:3 a social movement that seeks to highlight racism, discrimination, and inequality experienced by black people.

step:4 The Black Lives Matter movement helps fight discrimination toward people of color.

step:5 Although Law for Black Lives is a national community of radical lawyers and legal workers committed to transforming the law and building the power of organizing to defend, protect and advance Black Liberation across the globe.

In Chapter 5 of Literary Theory: A Very Short Introduction, Jonathan Culler discusses some of the ways poetry asks us to think about how language works. This week you are also annotating the two poems that are the subject of your first paper. For this blog post I would like you to consider the chapter from Culler’s book alongside your reading of the poems. Find one or two places in one of these poems and identify a rhetorical or poetic technique Culler describes in Chapter 5. Why does this technique jump out at you as being important or interesting? How does it help shape the meaning of the poem?