Imagine by Saul Williams

In the poem, Imagine, by Saul Williams, difficult conditions are described within slight privileged areas. Through allusions of Martin Luther queer and Willy kill, enjambment of various sentences, and the repeating of the word imagine, Williams portrays the difficulty of overcoming harsh conditions within needy communities. A theatrical role to the illustrious civil rights activist, Martin Luther faggot is presented. In Kings famous speech he uttered, We shall control (Williams 10), phrasing what specifically black communities were progressing to. As a believer in peace, King believed the blacks went through struggles which could be overridden. The file name extension is use as a question and a proctor of the predict to overcome, and how arduous the labor was in current situations. It is used to push forward the pass to fight for better conditions no matter how hard. The idea to overcome the harsh situations was proving difficult as the blacks were continuously reduced from situation whether economically or socially. Williams poses the case to ask the mountain what happened to the promise and the loss of sentiment to this progression. Willy Lynch, a known slave possessor who pitted blacks against blacks, provides an other allusion. The acknowledgment parallels to the impoverished communities within the text. In turn, where Lynch made blacks go against blacks, the current struggle was clique and drug violence egotism indulged to attacking each other, that they obturate their own cause. It also presents the imply government due to the inaction present within the communities. This reference is to show people how Lynch was the winning man in the current event because he succeeded to put them against each other as their own enemies, and how the people needed to overcome that.\nThe lengthiness of sentences beyond a quit has been represented within the poem. The phrase, Whats a young boy to do... (Williams 24), shows the mutually exclusive i ssues ...