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    The poem "Young Soul" by Amari Baraka urges young people to feel and read to expand their knowledge. It encourages them to think of others as much as themselves and to look deeply into matters. The poem uses repetition of "feel" and "read" to emphasize thinking with emotion and expanding one's understanding. It has a serious tone and decreasing stanza lengths to influence the audience.

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    The poem "Young Soul" by Amari Baraka urges young people to feel and read to expand their knowledge. It encourages them to think of others as much as themselves and to look deeply into matters. The poem uses repetition of "feel" and "read" to emphasize thinking with emotion and expanding one's understanding. It has a serious tone and decreasing stanza lengths to influence the audience.

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    The poem "Young Soul" by Amari Baraka urges young people to feel and read to expand their knowledge. It encourages them to think of others as much as themselves and to look deeply into matters. The poem uses repetition of "feel" and "read" to emphasize thinking with emotion and expanding one's understanding. It has a serious tone and decreasing stanza lengths to influence the audience.

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    “Young Soul” by Amari Baraka

    The outward meaning of the poem urges the young people first to feel and read if they

    want to move forward. Additionally, the young generation should learn to think of others as much

    as they think about themselves. Also, young city boys and countrymen should read and look

    deeply into matters. As they make muscles in their heads, they should make use of the muscles in

    their hearts. Conversely, the inner meaning of the poem persuades the youths to be more aware,

    cautious, and consider only things that matter in life. The poet urges youths to feel more about

    their surroundings, and they should read to expand their knowledge.

    Tone

    The poet uses a serious tone, which is constant throughout the poem. The poet employs a

    serious attitude in the speaker to ensure he influences how the readers emotionally respond to the

    poem. Using a serious tone helps the targeted audience feel and take the message in the poem

    seriously. The audience becomes more attentive and makes decisions accordingly. In the first

    stanza, line seven of the poem, the poet urges the youths to think of their parents, mothers, sisters,

    and bentslick fathers and then feel or fall. The urge appears as serious advice that influences the

    audience’s perception of the message in the poem.

    The technique used in the poem

    Repletion is one of the techniques used in the poem to enhance the mood and stress the

    primary theme. The word “feel” is repeated severally in the poem to emphasize that the youths

    should feel more about what they are doing. It also introduces the idea of emotion towards

    anything that the targeted audience does. Additionally, the poet’s choice of words shows more

    sorrow and how he was desperate for attention. The choices of words used make readers reflect

    on their lives and question the existing youth generation. Furthermore, the poet’s words make the

    audience reflect more on the speaker’s words to identify the message contained in the poem.
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    Structure of the Poem

    The poem is organized into three stanzas. The number of lines in a stanza decreases from

    the first stanza to the last. The lines in each stanza are eleven, six, and four, respectively. There is

    the deliberate use of white space in the poem as the stanzas are not arranged in a vertical straight

    line. The second stanza is below the first one but more on the light side and does not start at the

    margin. The deliberate white space used helps readers to pause while reading the poem.

    Furthermore, it helps identify the end of one idea and where a new idea in the poem starts.

    Sound devices used in the poem

    The author Amari Baraka uses alliteration in the first line of the first stanza. The words

    “first” and “feel” are considered alliteration in this poem and help build the poem’s rhythm. Also,

    there is the use of repletion within the poem. The words “feel” and “read” are repeated severally.

    These words also help to improve rhyme and rhythm in the poem, and at the same time, make the

    poet sound desperate in his words.

    Figurative Language

    The author uses imagery when he says, “fall, on your knees” in line ten of the first stanza.

    He urges the youths to express, feel, and be aware of their emotions and never hold back even

    when they feel defeated. Conversely, in the last stanza, the statement “make some muscle in your

    head, but use the muscle in your heart” is imagery. In this statement, the poet means the audience

    should be strong-minded people and have a big heart that can love unconditionally.

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