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Richard Wright Personification
Throughout the poem Richard wright the author uses imagery personification and symbolism to help the reader feel exactly how he felt a descriptive way. “One morning while in the woods I stumbled suddenly upon the thing’ you can see the speaker stumbles over the body and there is disbelief of his view. I am aware that the body he was stumbling over was the body of a African American who was lynched maybe the night before .I could tell by the way the speaker spoke about it that he was affected by it .I noticed that he used imagery to communicate his attitude toward the things he saw in the woods. For example when he is referring to the torn tree it basically says Richard was torn inside .He uses personification so readers can feel the emotion

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