"Beloved Is She?"(part 1)

Leo Evans

11/17/13

Mr. Tom de Wit

“Beloved is She?” 

“I was inspired to write this poem after reading this fascinating tale of pain, and determination to live. Following this poem I will interpret the meaning and the feelings that I experienced.”

The ways of hate are corrupt and damaging to the sole...

(School teacher documenting stolen milk)

Fear can be used to enslave and control.

If you focus on life, death would be defeated…

(Denver birth in a canoe)

Evil is fed by the week and mistreated.

(Sethe’s baby coming back in the flesh) = Beloved.

Love can restructure a woman’s emotions…

(Paul D)

Time will reveal the ill and obnoxious.

(Sweet Home wickedness)

Life can be punishing, love can be bloody and dark…

True change can be made by the decision of the heart.

(Baby Suggs sleep to her Death)

Strong will is the drive, which drove every victor to victory…

"Sethe"… (Denver mother is strong) but the ghost of her child is at rage with her grim murder and history.

                Interpretation:  

I wrote this poem first without the names and my thoughts from the book (Beloved By Toney Morrison.)

“The ways of hate are corrupt and damaging to the sole.”

Most people hate to be “Hated on.”  And I am a firm believer of the saying “treat others as you would like to be treated.” Therefore if you don’t want to be a slave why make others enslaved? Why would you give pain to someone if you hate to have pain? Corruption and sickness is in affect within these radical notions.

The school teacher had to have been sick to be able to watch a helpless lady being robbed for her baby’s nourishment. I felt miserable and stranded reading this story of mental and physical malice. The evil of mankind unraveling before me was indeed believable as realistic black history.

The fear inflected upon the victim was calculated to control the rest of that slave life and it included a main part in the death of many like the dearly beloved.

“If you focus on life, death would be defeated.”

People like Amy was the essential to the end of slavery and segregation, though she was raised racist she had a heart otherwise. Amy was focused on a life in Boston wrapped in velvet she was a big help to sethe because she had helped her stay alive enough to deliver baby Denver when she could have stayed on her mission  she made a detour of black support.

Death was defeated when Paul D put up a good fight for his life against the baby ghost in (part one of this book.) Paul’s strengths were driven by massive fear.  Paul demeanor reconstructed sethe’s blood red, unbalanced emotions. Evil pray on the weak, so the defeat was not permanent. The love, jealousy, and mystery thereafter, was evolving after the blue silence of the supernatural spirit anger.  

Unfortunately, Evil reformed and arrived transformed into the flesh of the dead Beloved.