Imagine by Saul Williams

In the poem, Imagine, by Saul Williams, difficult conditions be described within little privileged areas. Through allusions of Martin Luther business leader and Willy lynch, enjambment of various sentences, and the repeating of the word imagine, Williams portrays the hindrance of overcoming harsh conditions within devoid communities. A university extension to the famous civil rights activist, Martin Luther powerfulness is presented. In Kings famous speech he uttered, We shall belabor (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 quality is utilize as a question and a monitor of the control to overcome, and how arduous the line of work was in current situations. It is used to push forward the substance 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 post whether economically or socially. Williams poses the extension book to ask the concourse what happened to the promise and the loss of sentiment to this progression. Willy Lynch, a known slave owner who pitted blacks against blacks, provides an different allusion. The reference parallels to the impoverished communities within the text. In turn, where Lynch made blacks go against blacks, the current struggle was crime syndicate and drug violence self-importance indulged to attacking each other, that they barricade their own cause. It also presents the incriminating government due to the inactivity 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 lengthening of sentences beyond a give over has been represented within the poem. The phrase, Whats a young boy to do... (Williams 24), shows the mutually exclusive issues ...