Runagate example essay topic

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Good morning / afternoon Teachers and fellow students for my speech today, I have chosen The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and Runagate Runagate by Robert Hayden. "Runagate Runagate" portrays to the responder how a Underground Railroad, In the middle 1800's aided slaves to escape north to freedom via a secret network. Led by Harriet Tubman and traveling mostly at night, the slaves would rely on navigation by stars. Rhythmically, the poem captures the frantic flight of a 'runagate' (escaped slaves) and stresses through the use of onomatopoetic pace in 'Runagate Runagate'.

Like the rhythm of the title, the rhythm in the text suggest the frenetic pace of the running slaves and the steady, rumbling movement of a train, appropriate to the motif of the Underground Railroad: / / / / / / / Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness / / / / and the darkness thickened with shapes of terror / / / / and the hunter pursuing and the hounds pursuing... But the journey is not an easy one; like In the road not taken (I took the one less traveled), the escapees are tempted into give up (we " ll never make it) this is also displayed to the responder in The Road Not Taken (I doubted if I should ever come back), until they are pushed into action by a testosterone filled Harriet Tubman: (Hush that now, and she's turned upon us, leveled pistol glinting in the moonlight: Dead folks can't jaybird-talk, she says; you keep on going now or die) The journey here is at midpoint both texts display to the responder. What will happen in the future? Shown here in The road not taken: (Yet knowing how way leads on to way) and (do you see mailed Jehovah coming to deliver me?) in Runagate Runagate. True freedom is a vision of the future.

'Mean mean mean to be free'.