Frederick Douglass

1.) I believe that the wild songs and poetry go good together, but they are very different from each other. If you look at any song they are all basically written in poetry form, so you could say that most poems are just like songs, basically just because of the way that they are written. Now if you were to look at it as a way of expression, then I believe that they are two totally different things. I think that poetry and wild songs are both great ways of expression that can let one express their emotions and feelings. Wild songs are basically about slavery. Slavery was a very dark time, so all of the wild songs are going to be dark, gloomy sad poems. Now a poem can be about anything, it can be happy or sad or whatever you are feeling. I feel that one particular set of poems that really got me was poems by John Keats. John  Keats really expressed himself and all of his emotions in all of his poems.

2.) I think the love song that J. Alfred Prufrock wrote is basically one big dramatic monologue. I believe it is a dramatic monologue because it just follows all of the characteristics of a dramatic monologue. Some would say a monologue must have a few key things to be considered a monologue. One being that someone other than the poet himself is the speaker the entire way through the poem. You can find this true about "The Love Song." Another big giveaway is that the poet uses the kind of writing that we can get a good jest of the person without having it described to us. Basically we see for ourselves and we figure out this character on its own. Lastly, the person interacts with other characters in the stories, this being said even though we can't really tell what the other person's reaction is.

"If there is no struggle, there is no progress."

-Frederick Douglass