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Script: Blood Diamond-Watched First in Scripture Class

James Wright was influenced by translating foreign poetry in the 1950s. He wrote poetry like The Branch Will Not Break that departed from traditional styles. The document discusses two artistic connections for James Wright - the film Blood Diamond about exploitation in Sierra Leone's diamond mines, and John Lennon's song "Imagine" about a utopian society with equal human rights. Both connections relate to Wright's experience growing up during labor movement and his desire to eliminate suffering through universal human rights.

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Script: Blood Diamond-Watched First in Scripture Class

James Wright was influenced by translating foreign poetry in the 1950s. He wrote poetry like The Branch Will Not Break that departed from traditional styles. The document discusses two artistic connections for James Wright - the film Blood Diamond about exploitation in Sierra Leone's diamond mines, and John Lennon's song "Imagine" about a utopian society with equal human rights. Both connections relate to Wright's experience growing up during labor movement and his desire to eliminate suffering through universal human rights.

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Script

Art Connections for James Wright

By Shane D’sa

Biography

• Dad worked in a glass factory for 50 years and mother working in a laundry
• Life transformed in 1950s when help translate South American and German
poetry with Robert Bly

Historical context

• Lived when labor regulations few


• Civil rights movement 1960s
• World War II and Cold War

Works

• The Branch Will Not Break -1963


○ Break away from normal use of traditional rhyme and meter
○ Use deep images

Literary Thread

• James Wright describes the progression of the American Labor Rights


Movement

How to choose Art Connections

• Blood Diamond- watched first in scripture class


○ Show injustices of society and abuse of power
• “Imagine” sisters favorite song
○ Preach society where everyone is equal
○ Utopia

Art Connection 1

• Injustices faced by people in Sierra Leone 1999


• People are abused by their own and sent to diamond mines
○ Fund war
• Governments try and reform to try and eliminate “blood diamonds” from the
diamond market
○ Slow moving

Art Connection 2
• John Lennon wants equal world with universal human rights
○ Utopia where everyone is cared for
• Wright try and eliminate pain he faced as a child with working parents
• “Imagine”- perfect society with human rights
○ Blood Diamond about struggle for human rights and abuse of power

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