AAFTER US In this poem, the poet uses a surplus of imagery to allow the reader to fully see what she is trying to get us to picture. In the first line, she talks about how rain, which can be destructive or helpful, is seeping into a room where books and other material things reside. In the lines to follow, she writes about how everything that flourished under the sun, turned away to try and find the light that they so desperately need. This shows the destructive side to rain because it paints the picture of a dark day with rain falling and silencing all activities that happen during the day. In the second paragraph, the poet writes about a portrait, which has sketches of boats and barns and this creates the image of a perfect utopia where everything is peaceful and nothing has disturbed it. The paragraph that follows this peaceful picture, is where the foreboding and evil rain begins to make its appearance again. She writes about how everything that was ever thought of or invented or t...
TTOBACCO ROAD Tobacco Road is a 1932 novel by American author Erskine Caldwell. Set in rural Georgia on the outskirts of the city of Augusta, it concerns a family of impoverished white sharecroppers, the Lesters, who struggle economically during the Great Depression. The Lesters and their neighbors strive to build a brighter future as the cotton picking market is absorbed by advances in industrial technology and the increasing urbanization of Georgia. Many of the characters commit brutal and reckless acts in the process. The novel’s main character is Jeester Lester, a morally corrupt and ignorant man who experiences a change of heart when he learns to respect the land and people who make his life possible. The novel is controversial for its anti-natalist undertones, which have been interpreted as supporting the views of Caldwell’s eugenicist father, Ira Caldwell, who argued for the sterilization of poor whites in Georgia in 1930. Nevertheless, the novel is widely considered one of...