Like Rousseau By Amiri Baraka

Shenice Elie

         Today we will be doing "Like Rousseau" by amiri baraka. By this poem i could tell that they is a lot of anger built in this poem and a lot of dream that need to be achieve that he wanted to see.  "Like Rousseau" is like African American struggling with their equal rights. Around the time this poem was written was Malcolm X and Martin Luther King jr era. The reason I mention that because Certain lines that he said. Like the keys words,For example "love" or " lovers" was mention a lot and that mean  protesters and how they Respect and Equality.