Watch for the spirit of the man that illuminates this third volume of his life. This 6 page paper explicates two of this author's poems and references others as it looks at literary techniques and common thematic elements. The works are compared and contrasted. The Virgins and Nearing Forty are explored in depth. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Transformation is a theme for mythology, reality, and spirituality.
In the Autobiography of Malcom X written in consultation with Alex Haley, all three forms of that transformative experience are present. Yet the transforming process is also a basic belief component Transformation as a belief component occurs when an individual seeks information, finds it, applies it to self, and changes. Buddha sought information under the tree, found it through meditation, applied it to self, and accordingly changed. Bibliography lists 3 sources. Bibliography lists 3 sources.