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About “Self Evident” by Ani Difranco
The poem, “Self Evident”, by Ani Difranco is a lyric poem about America and the World Trade Centre. ... This reason hat Ani Difranco writes it in this way is to make it sound as an ordinary person would say it. ... Difranco also uses no punctuation in her writing. ... While reading “Self Evident” I found that, besides the different stanzas, I could separate the poem into three separate parts. Each section is told in a certain way and is about a certain time. The first through the forth stanzas are about American pride and September eleventh. ...
In the first part of the poem Difranco begins to talk of the September eleventh attacks in metaphorical language. ... Difranco then begins to metaphorically talk about American pride. ... The part about holding hands and jumping into the sky, to me, symbolizes horror. She talks about the news media that day being jarred into repeating the repetition of the same scenes and bewildered comments. ... Difranco also talks about the “prep school punk” which I assume to be President Bush. ...
The middle section of “Self Evident” compares the downtrodden of our society with the oppressed of the world. Difranco refers to the war torn countries of Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq, and El Salvador. ... She also talks about the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, where living conditions are so poor that it is called the third world country within the borders of the United States.
Approximate Word count = 1173
Approximate Pages = 4.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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