Analysis Of The Poem The Souls Of Black Folks By Audre...

Someone once said, the identity of one changes with how one perceives reality. As we try to find our purpose in life, we begin to create an identity different from the one given to us. â€Å"From the House of Yemanja†, author Audre Lorde conveys a story of a speaker who tries to create her own identity but does not know which identity is truly hers’. Lorde develops the idea of the speaker’s dual identity through juxtaposition as well as imagery. W.E.B DuBois’ piece, â€Å"The Souls of Black Folks†, talks about the struggles African Americans face in a white dominated world. Dubois develops his theme by using eloquence as well as magniloquence language to develop a persuasive central idea to ultimately destroy the double-identities. Both Lorde and DuBois develop a central idea around the idea of twoness: the sense that mentally, one is split into two different personalities. By using rhetorical devices; a technique designed to have a persuasive or im pressive effect on its audience, Lorde and DuBois convey their stories how twoness through their writings. In Caribbean folk tales, the word â€Å"Yemanja† is a goddess who is often known as the mother of all. Lorde uses diction to connote the hidden meaning of the title. The title of this poem fabricates a mystical tone throughout the entire poem, but is hidden by the author’s diction. â€Å"My mother had two faces and a frying pot where she cooked up her daughters.† [Lines 1 and 2] The frying pan image of the mother overlays the mythical idea of a