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Great poem talking about the "Forgotten Love" He is saying that his love shall be based on the other's;
If his love does not want him, he will not want her. He she wants to see him, he will want to see her. If
she wants to forget him, he will forget her. If she wants him again, he shall want her.
Symbolism comparing everything he sees to little sailboats that "sail towards those isles of yours that wait for
me"
I have connections with lost loves/friends, and this poem speaks so perfectly of the feeling. If one does not love
you, why waste time giving them the love they don't want, even if you really want to give it to them. It lay dormant,
until the other wants it once again. The author feels exactly this way.
" Well, now.
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If Suddenly you forget me
do not look for me,
for i shall already have forgotten you."
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"I am the dream and the hope of the slave.
I rise
I rise
I rise."
Powerful poem about a black woman's condence in a slave heavy time. The woman will not have her
condence faltered, will not have her spirit broken down, and will not let the time she is living in or the
struggles she is going through break her. A black woman had no rights at all whatsoever; but it did not
falter her condence.
She symbolizes herself at the end as a dream and hope of the slave. It is saying that the dreams and hopes of
the slaves are rising, and no matter what they do to try and break it, it shall rise. There are many metaphors
about how concrete her condence is. "Just like moons and like suns, With the certainty of tides, Just like
hopes springing high"
No personal experience with slavery, but it does give me condence in myself to not let myself be judged by others.
Im not really sure why I like this poem or feel like its worthy of being logged, but it empowers a feeling of pride and
condence in myself, which is my exact meaning of the word "poetic," something that empowers a prominent
feeling. My main question is, why does she have such condence? She was a black woman in a slave based time. I
don't see what could possibly give her the condence that she portrays in this poem.