Research Paper

Well now in class we are working on a research paper on a poet. My poet is Alice Walker, an African American activist who writes mostly about African American rights and about African American women and their roles in society. My theme in the paper is about how Walker explores the fight against oppression and search for freedom both in personal and racial points of views in her work. As i research Walker, most of her poems deal with the fight for freedom and how individuals are constantly attacked. She also writes a lot about the fight against oppression in a male-dominated society. In my paper, I plan to talk about the poems that deal with these themes and having each paragraph refer to one poem and analyze it. I am also going to mention Walker's novel The Color Purple which also deals with these themes and finding connections with the poems and the novel. I also found that Walker's like connects with her work in the sense that she also felt oppressed by society and felt left out at times due to a childhood incident. Some difficulties about this assignment is finding poems and analyzing them and connecting them to the theme.