After Images - Emmett Till Poem

I am so glad that we can write about this poem. When Dr. Hollingsworth read it aloud in class I new that I wanted to write my final paper for this class on this poem. I read it a second time after class and think it is such a powerful poem on many different levels. The poet does such a great job of relaying what is going through their mind, and I think that writing a paper analyzing this poem would work great. What happened to Emmett Till was absolutely horrible and sad on every level, and this poem captures the sadness pretty well. We are being exposed to the poets reactions to these horrible events from the very start: "However the image enters its force remains within my eyes." This is very saddening, but powerful poem, and I am so glad that I got to read it.