Comparing Baldwin's Speech And Young Soul

I agree with your feeling of seeing a sort of resemblance between Baldwin's speech and the poem "Young Soul." They both make reference to getting to know yourself. Which does give some commonality between the two. I do however feel there are some differences, even though the points are basically the same. The difference is within the way you accomplish getting to know yourself. Baldwin's speech carries on about finding yourself through writing. In the "Young Soul" the speaker is persuading the reader to get to know themselves through reading. As you had expressed, there are different parts to our personalities and we have to allow ourselves time and opportunity to explore who we are, I completely agree. As would both authors of these pieces
A great example of parallel structure in this paragraph is, "Some writers are comfortable with novels immediately, some enjoy the short story form always, some stay with poems." By repeating, and speaking of people in a generalized term like "some" it allows the reader to let themselves fall into whatever category feels best for them. There are definetely some differences in rhythm if you look at Baldwin's speech and the poem "Young Soul" side by side. You have acknowledge a few good points for each. I feel more clarification could have been done to describe how they differ in rhythm and how those differences helped achieve the writers end goal. I agree that the speech is more straight forward to the reader because of the way it is written. Being a speech, it is written with less literary devices being used, causing the rhythm to flow more like a conversation. This gave Baldwin the ability to paint the picture she wanted to reader to see, with clear understanding. In "Young Soul" on the other hand, the writers use of rhythm helps to break down the poem into three main points. I can see this because the writer uses a different rhythm in each