Poetry Analysis

Poetry Analysis The year is 1872, slavery has ended with the Civil War seven years ago, and the now United States is undergoing the process of Reconstruction. Born in 1825, Frances E. W. Harper is 47 years old and a brilliant female African-American writer whose fingertips are on the heartbeat and pulse of voiceless women and blacks. In her frustration and perseverance, she sits down and pens “Aunt Chloe’s Politics”, a timeless attack on the politics of …

…the oppression she had faced in her life, Harper was able to see the political injustice that was taking place at the time this poem was written. Using the language of the uneducated minority, the events that encompassed the Civil War and Reconstruction, and the courageous tone of the speaker, Aunt Chloe, Francis E. W. Harper delivered her message of equality and political honesty to every person that takes the time to read this poem.