"Dance Suite: Hip Hop" by W.D Sndograss

In this poem, "Dance Suite: Hip Hop," first looked a little imitating. The set up was weird and unusual. In the poem, that is a rap makes many people look at everything as optimistic. They talk about about the different problems we see in society and how they are getting worse. It also talks about how we, the society accept all these bad things that are happening. It reminded me of the New York atmosphere. "Oil's on the water;spray's on the pumpkin." This line simply is stating that we are spilling oil onto the water source we have ,and we are spraying pesticides on the food that we eat. This is casuing everything to become unhealthy for us.

In the poem, their are two parts, the performance and and the background or the audience. "Nuts and bolts/ charged by volts/Jumpstart into spastic jerks and jolts; /Gears and notches/Grinding crotches/Juicing up the parts of the fools that we watch." This stanza we can refer it to being the dancing stanza. This is where the performance takes place. We can see an image of people dancing to the rythem. "Sidewalks full of garbage; / pictures in the news/Mayor's on the radio spouting about excuses;/Bars on the storefronts, landlords on their way;/ Cops have got their spring list -they'll make it pay." This stanza refers to the background or the audience. This is what we see everyday and this is what makes this poem real. It is that we have to see this everyday so that is our audience. This is all the problems we see in our society today. Together, the performance and the background or audience make up the dance suit.

I really liked this poem becuase it was an upbeat poem, that grabbed your attention really fast. I love to dance, so I really enjoyed the whole theme of dance between each verse. I also like how the author put real facts, that we see everyday into a rap that could be different. It was not like your everyday poem, but it was a poem in a different form. This poem reminded me of New York City. Seeing the streets full of garbage and then seeing the dancing in the theatre or on the street. You see it all in New York, that is why this poem relates so well with New York. This poem also looks at it from a younger perspective which is seeing streets full of dealers and girls on the curb. The author is looking at everything he sees in the view of someone younger than him. This poem can relate to us, as teenagers becasue we see these types of things everyday, at school, at home, or even with friends. So everyone I am sure can relate to this poem in some way.