THE KEVIN YOUNG’S POETRY - DEFINITIONS

Firstly, I have realized the similarities between

Young and the late graffiti artist Jean-Michel

Basquiat and his influence on African American

culture. Young tackles race and society’s

expectations. In “Negative”, Young makes the

reader “Wake to find everything black. Immediately

we are asked to consider what we find backward

about these opening lines. Is everything in this

description the vice versa that the author expects it

to be, or are we somehow above the stereotype?

Young is at his starkest while revealing the

memories of his childhood. However, his recount

has a sense of calm that seems directly inspired by

his poetry which is “emotion recollected through

tranquility”.

In this poem, by Kevin Young, we notice many

things:

There are a lot of verbs, a lot of action, to keep the

interest; a place is established, with someone

traveling through that place.

In both poems there’s this relation about a familiar

place, maybe a place to live his intense life.

One more interesting thing is the punctuation that

leads the reader to create and to participate in this

poem scene.

And I guess that everyone in this blog realized

Young’s imperative mood and also describing his

places in real landscapes!

“Nothing but the wheat, waving them

Sick, a sea. While they strangle

Him blue as the sky above you…”

THESE ARE THE LITTLE PASSAGES IN BOTH POEMS AND RELATED

TO THE AUTHOR’S DESCRIPTION.