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PLEASE HELP!!!!!! ENGLISH!!!! 50 points!!! describe how each poem uses imagery about freedom, the lack of it, or the desire for it. The poems would be "life is fine" ,"The Weary Blues" , "A black Mans Talks of Reaping".

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Answer and Explanation:

"Life is fine" addresses freedom of choice. That's because the poem shows us the various attempts that a man made to die. This man was free to choose to die, just as he was free to quit every time he tried to make it happen. This man was even free to give up dying and see life as a gift and something good to be lived.

"The Weary Blues" addresses artistic freedom and the limitation of freedom by racial segregation. In this poem the poet shows us how an artist has the freedom to produce a sad and melancholy work, especially when that artist lives in a segregating society, which judges him by the color of his skin and prevents him from living fully.

"The black Mans Talks of Reaping" portrays the complete lack of freedom by presenting us with the deprivation that slaves suffered, the hard and difficult life in southern plantation fields. The poem shows how slaves were the producers of the land, they were the great sowers of what they would never have access to, but they were constantly limited, exploited and massacred, not having the freedom to get rid of it.

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