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10 BULLET POINTS 

 
● Leader of the Harlem renaissance, exploring perseverance of the black working 
class, while highlighting togetherness and unity, and supporting the global issue 
he recognizes, which is the fight of racially oppressed groups 
● Connotative and denotative diction,faith,diacope dream 
● Analogy and motif of seed, indirect comparison to plants that allow life on Earth 
● Authority appeal, talk about Lincoln and Douglas and allusion to Civil War, 
why valuable authority? 
● Refer to Douglas’ quote “Better to die free than to live slaves.' and explain 
contrast and diction 
● Quote:“Keep your hand on the plow! Hold on!”, discuss perseverance and 
continuity of the fight, capitalized letters 
● Lexical clustering: “Brotherhood” “Freedom” and “Democracy”, share the 
connotations and denotations of equality, liberty and unity.  
● Talk about structure: end-stopping and length of the poem 
● Civil War, which has eventually fostered emancipation proclamation, which 
granted slaves basic civil rights. However, this did not grant freedom to 
African-Americans, as consequences of past racial oppression were still present.  
● Why was the poem relevant? Motivating and influencing discriminated groups 

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