Explain how the Black Lives Matter movement may have influenced the positions and views Smith expresses in "not an elegy for Mike Brown" and "Dinosaurs in the Hood." Use evidence (quotations, summaries, or paraphrases) from the poems to support your answer. Remember to include in-text citations.

 

Answer:

In the poem titled " not an elegy for Mike Brown" there is a part where it is said that:

think: once, a white girl

was kidnapped & that's the Trojan war.

later, up the block, Troy got shot
& that was Tuesday. are we not worthy

of a city of ash? of 1000 ships
launched because we are missed?

this part of poem tells us that if a white girl kidnapped the authorities will bring peace to the white girl but then on  a Tuesday in a city a black man got shot by the police and then the authorities doesn't care about it? it is slap to the face that this scenario screams racism because black lives matter.

The Hood's Dinosaur Is it true that society has an impact on how people perceive different objects, such as cultures? Danez Smith addresses most prejudices in film and describes how they are depicted in his poem "Dinosaur in the Hood." He also discusses the portrayal of African-Americans in films. The subjects of the poem are based on American films and how black people are depicted.The black boy's dream represents the black boy's paws, while the dinosaur in the hood may be interpreted as the black boy's inability to flee the hood. The viewer may empathize with this because it is a societal phenomenon, and it demonstrates how society can be quick to criticize one another.