Alice+Walker


 * The Wonderful Alice Walker

​ |||||| The Life and Times of Alice Walker  Walker was born on February 9, 1944 at her home in Ward Chapel, Georgia to Willie Lee Walker and Minnie Lou Tallulah Grant Walker. She was the 8th and last child of the household. Alice grew up in a home that was loving and kind with parents that gave her a new perspective of life and artistic asperations. Alice attended primary and middle school at East Putnam Consolidated, then attending Butler-Baker High School in segregated Eatonton where she grew up to be the class valedictorian. Some of Ms. Walker's major works include **The** **Color Purple** (which was awarded the **Pulitzer Prize** and the **National Book Award** in 1983), **The Third Life of Grange Copeland**, and **Meridian.** ||  || Expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. become a stranger To need of pity Or, if compassion be freely Given out Take only enough Stop short of urge to plead Then purge away the need.
 * Expect Nothing

Wish for nothing larger Than your own small heart Or greater than a star; Tame wild disappointment With caress unmoved and cold Make of it a parka For your soul.

Discover the reason why So tiny human midget Exists at all So scared unwise But expect nothing. Live frugally On surprise. || Love Is That Giant Bag  Love Is that giant Bag Of Everything Into Which We Might Disappear Without A trace & Be found again: Even The parent You Thought Was Lost.

Father, Gone to spirit Before You reached My Age, I am Your Dream Of Me & More & I will Carry Us, Plucked From Love's Abyss.

Love is God is Fate is Coyote

Is Trickster, playing tricks On Us. |||||| Told My teacher Was told By Her teacher - Who loved Her:

You cannot Shoot guns You cannot Drop bombs Your fists Are forbidden To you As are Mean and Hurtful Words No matter How Carefully Chosen.

You have one Weapon & One weapon Only:

Use it.

It is Your Ability To Teach. || ~Some poetic devices used in this poem are personification, and metaphor. ~The rhyme scheme of this poem is ABCDEFGHIIJKLMNOPQRSTABC. ~The theme of the poem is to look at the simpler side of life, because if you accomplish this than you might notice significant details about your surroundings that might have been overlooked had you not stopped to evaluate. || Response ~My favorie part of this poem is the last 2 stanzas. I really enjoyed reading the word play Ms. Walker uses. Unfortunately, this is not one of my favorite poems because I found it difficult to comprehend. ~Some poetic devices used in this poem were personification and metaphors. ~The rhyme scheme is ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ AA AB AC AD AE K AF AG AH AI AJ AK AL AM AO AP AQ AR AS. ~The theme of this poem (as difficult as it was to figure out) is that when you experience love you sort of fall into a 'bag' and you are able to look within yourself to find things you normally couldn't have seen before. |||||| Response ~The thing I really like about this poem is the way Ms. Walker formats the poem. Its fairly long, but I noticed as I was reading it I found myself getting wrapped into the mystery of what really is a teacher's greatest weapon. ~A poetic device used in this poem is metaphors. (to be more specific, the entire poem is an extended metaphor.) ~The rhyme scheme of this poem is ABCADEFGFHIJKLMNOPQRSTUMUVWXYZ AA AB. ~The theme of the poem is that whenever you teach, no matter what happens, no matter how many times you know you can make a snappy come-back at a bratty kid, your greatest weapon is the thing that you are-your greatest weapon is to teach. ** :^) ** || ||  |||||| Resources/Notes: []  []
 * Response ~Personally I adore this poem! I love Ms. Walker's message that you really shouldn't expect anything, because when you live "expecting nothing" then you are able to see the small details in life that you could have overlooked had you not changed your perspective.
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