1. An Ironic Twist
In this poem she uses a highly intelligent and scathing verbal irony. ... The poem also has traces of situational and cosmic irony. ... One difference between the last poem, "Middle Passage," and the other two are that the authors of the previous poems lived during the time of slavery and had personal experience with the peculiar institution. ... In "Middle Passage" Hayden uses standard epic conventions and devices and alters and inverts them to his liking. His inversion technique of the epic has been called by some critics an "ant-epic." ...
- Word Count: 846
- Approx Pages: 3
- Grade Level: Undergraduate