1RESPONSE LETTERSFirst ResponseFirst Response First Response Though there has been a debate about the presence and absence of similarities between your essay “A Modest Proposal” and my poem “Nikki Rosa”, the point that intrigues me in the satire is the usage of tone where you are so direct that it is hard for the readers to understand the sarcastic setting of the essay. The essay subtly sets apart the concept of happiness and wealth for the Black and White which was due to the pamphlets doing the round during the time asking the black parents to start selling their children in the European market to help them with their poverty (Giovanni). The character reliving her childhood in the poem might have reacted in the same way as the Swift did to the pamphlets and the essay resonates Nikki’s thought process where she cannot comprehend and accepts the fact that the White people could ever understand what their unity means to them and that though they had a broken bath and a drinking dad, they were always together and standing with each other. The politician criticizing the begging condition on the road could not be made to understand the happiness of the child hanging at the back of her mother or around the neck when their mother looks at them lovingly (Swift). Second Response As a reader trying to fit into the shoes of one of the begging parent and responding to swift writing, I would have thanked him for telling his people the things they wanted to hear in the right tone they deserved. Swift’s proposal to selling the kid and then later adding that the tender meat of the children will taste very delicious if left in the hands of a capable cook (Giovanni). As a progeny of the begging parents, I would have liked to thank swift for being the voice of the population who were not added to the literature at that time.
2RESPONSE LETTERSFirst ResponseFirst Response “Nikki Rosa” is very relatable to the children growing in the ghettos where though the white writers have always taken even the slightest opportunity to write about the black household in the negative light forgetting the school of thoughts which forms the basis of their character (Swift). The concept of the childhood spent with family playing, laughing and loving every bit to the very core is resonated in the poem which is relatable to every black child. The criticism of the white biographers to understand the pain of the parents giving up their dreams for their children is fathomable to the children who had grown to see the change in their life.
3RESPONSE LETTERSFirst ResponseFirst Response Works-Cited Giovanni, Nikki. "Nikki-Rosa By Nikki Giovanni."Poetry Foundation. N.p., 2019. Web. 11 Dec. 2019. Swift, Jonathan. "A Modest Proposal, By Jonathan Swift."Gutenberg.org. N.p., 2019. Web. 11 Dec. 2019.