He admits that it is so sad that the snakes and the sun cannot bear to watch. Anger is a very genuine and shared emotion one that few people on this earth can live without experiencing. For this reason, anger has its place in our literature, media, and film. By doing this, he hopes to wake up his readers to the way that this culture has been wronged by mainstream society. In Smith s case, I believe that he is writing the poem with anger to better depict a horrible tragedy in America.
Anger is such a powerful emotion because it is often the climax of many emotions rolled into one.
This was the case with my football coach. He went from the natural high of our team being ahead, to a state of mind in which doubts were beginning to rise, and to the final realization that his team would once again be left out of the playoffs. Work Cited 1. New Worlds of Literature. Jerome Beaty and J. Paul Hunter.