For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf: Style

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Term Paper Title	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When The Rainbow Is Enuf: Style
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For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf: Style
and Theme

For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf: Style
and Theme

Lorin Hobart
AML 2604
11-25-96
Ms. Hunt

     For Colored Girls who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf
is a piece of work written by Ntozake Shange.  It is written in an unusual style
that is called a choreopoem.  This style is very effective when done by a
skilled poet such as Shange.  She uses a combination of rhyming lyrics and a
play like format to captivate the reader. The subject matter of her work is very
powerful as well.  The entire collection revolves around how black women are
oppressed and their courage throughout many trials. Using the combination of a
unique style and riveting content Ntozake Shange sends a message of hope and
pride to her fellow black women in her work For Colored Girls who Have
Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf.
     First of all, Shange writes in the form a choreopoem.  A choreopoem is a
piece of work that is written as a poem but is intended to be acted out on stage
sort of like an opera. It is constructed in such a way that it flows just as
well on paper as it does on stage. She either writes in all capital letters or
all lower case letters and never mixes them. This creates a style that she is
personally known for. It sets her apart from other writers and makes her work
original. None of the characters have names or any type of identity except for
the color of their clothes. When the piece is done on stage the characters are
never introduced they are just eventually recognized by the color of their
dresses. This makes it a little difficult to follow for the reader or spectator
at first but after the work is under way each individual may find they relate to
a certain color and begin to follow the specific character wearing that certain
color.  This is another literary tactic that Shange uses to separate herself
from other writers. Shange writes much of her work from personal experience
which makes her writing twice as interesting and powerful. She writes several
different poems and has them a...

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