"The Incident"

The last stanza talks about how the little boy has had more hard times in his life, but out of all of them that one stuck with him the most. That memory of that little white boy callingig him such a horrible name stuck with him throughout all the other horrible things that had happened in Baltimore. Just a little boy that happened to be of color wanted to play with a boy that looked his age, and not his color, but then this little boy used a term so harsh, so cruel, that it stuck with him for the rest of his life. The title is perfect for this poem because it shows the sadness and the pain that this little boy went through it was an incident small and painful, which is pretty mych the defnintion of that word.

"The Fact of a Doorframe"

1. Read it through
2. The speaker is trying to get through the point that she is very aggrivated with life and is talking about the the Makeba sings, which is this trible singer who sings about courage and life. How you can make it through life. "Music is suffering made powerful", this is what helping this speaker through killing herself, or putting herself in any danger. The goose-girl is this fairy-tale about this princess who gets sent by her mother to go find her prince, on her horse Falada, which is her talking horse. Then her talking horse's head gets chopped off and hung on the arch. So this is talking about her feelings about this person she is missing. Then in the last stanza she talks about how through out all the different types of poems, she is still grasping for you, for her grasping for that person the speaker is head over heels for.
3. The tone is definately sad and depressing. This is all about love and how the speaker is longing for her and will actually hurt herself to, to make this person feel her pain, or show her the pain she is going through.
4. The words that I don't know is "hewn, arcane, mare".
5. There arn't any phrases that I highly don't understand, besides when the author is talking about the Makeba songs and the Goose girl sotry. I am a little unformilur with both.
6. The author achieves this tone by making the speaker want to hurt herself over someone. Readying through the poem twice you can tell that the abuse she was doing to herself wasn't because of friends or family member, it was about someone she loved and knew she couldn't live without. She tried to make herself feel better by rellating her life to the Makeba songs , which her upbeat and happy but the Goose Girl story related to her much better than the Makeba stories.
7. The theme or messege in this story is that hurting yourself isn't the answer you should always stay true to yourself and express yourself in a non-violent way.