An analysis of Alice Walker's poem "Be Nobody's Darling", and how she uses literary devices to enhance the overall meaning

Repellence of Conformity

Individuality is the great catalyst of progress; without it there is a standing(prenominal) state of mind where no revolutions in thought would occur. Yet, personal identity comes at the price of isolation, thus it is long sought afterwards and hard to truly achieve. Breaking from societal reigns upon ideas comes difficultly, entirely to remain docile in the face of conformity is a far worse fate. Alice Walkers poem Be Nobodys Darling for Lester Julius is an put up directed towards the individual to break free of societal molds, but only by its use of extensive imagery and an imperative tone is her poem able to convey its meaning to its in force(p) extent.

        

Walkers fervent belief in the value of individuality is reflected in her use of images that draw out a deeper meaning in her work. By using her extensive imagery, the ideas she presents become vividly picture and are easy to relate to. In order to declare the need to embrace our differences with one another, she paints a shawl (6) of contradictions (3) to values and paradigms held by the conformist solely. The shawl she uses not only visualizes her point, but its connotation of rubber eraser offers a desire to embrace contradictions to fend off the porcine beliefs of the spatees.



She later compares the masses to the individual with her use of a river of conformity, where the whole of society is pushed along the river bed (18) where is driven forward to a predetermined destination as opposed to the individual who makes a merry gathering on the bank (21-22) free to claim their own destiny. The use of the river of conformity to herd a mass of people is a frightful image that shows the true travel plan of those who do not make their...

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