Alice Walker and Tennyson

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This paper compares and contrasts the message and style of Alice Walker's essay "Am I Blue" with Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem "Tithonus". The paper explains that, while the styles of the two authors as well as the eras in which they were written are very different, the message in their works, that of love and that all things pursued should be pursued in the name of and for the sake of love, are the same.

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"The speaker in "Am I Blue" is clearly the still living Alice Walker as she meanders the reader through her experiences in a Summer farm home she, her companion and the companion's Son occupy for three Summers in Georgia. She relates primarily herself and what she feels is the Black experience to the reader. Using the white horse Blue, his trials and tribulations over such mundane things as drying meadow grass, apples, and through the relationship with a mare, brown by the way. The despair over the loss of his companion then becomes Walker's vehicle for dissertations."

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