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The poem Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane by Etheridge Knight is a poem that retells a legendary story of an epic prison hero: his life, conquers, defeats, and ultimate demise. Throughout the poem, Knight objectifies the main character by referring to him as an inanimate object, the “hard rock”. ...
This is all in an exuberant effort to make the “hard rock” into a larger than life hero. ...
We can further assume that the conditions these prisoners were subjected to were deplorable, as the “hard rock” was subjected to intense electrical therapy treatments. ... Even then, they wanted so much for their hero, the man who did all the things they found themselves incapable of doing, to still exist, that they tried to believe it was all an act; A way for “hard rock” to escape any more unthinkable cruelties.
Approximate Word count = 595
Approximate Pages = 2.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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