shakur?hughes poetry

1.The story of Christ’s life and teachings, esp. as contained in the first four books of the New Testaments, namely Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. A doctrine regarded as of prime importance: political gospel. All of these meanings embody the message Tupac Shakur is sending us in the lyrics for “Ghetto Gospel”. The beginning of the song reminisces life lived in a state of destitute and how looking around it is easy to see that others, especially the youth must deal with similar problems. Since this is a true, prominent leaders for the African American cause like Malcon X died in vein since suffering continues, so in this way his words are a type of social or political gospel. Life in the ghetto can be difficult to bear and witnessing a homeless woman “living out a bag, in rags, loving the things she has”. Evan worse, there is the presence of a pregnant crack addict and what could be sadder than that? These travesties are told with conviction in such a way that we regard his words as truths that are more than implicitly believed; i.e. we take his report for gospel.
Shakur concludes with questions-prayers to God. Asking for understanding and forgiveness he then preaches to the living. “We can rant and rave about slavery for ages or we can stop making awful and hitem with al ghetto gospel.” This is one of the many reasons why Tupac Shakur is often regarded by millions to be a prophet.

2.Having read the lyrics before seeing the video, I imagined something very different from what I saw. The video begins with a murder and than moves to about a 24 hours period before the drive-by. It ends with the subject witnessing his mother at the funeral proceedings as a ghost and it seems that the video focuses too much on this one young man where the lyrics seem to embody the struggles of all that live in the grip of ghetto life. The video doesn’t really accurately depict the grandmother raising the grandchildren in a single mother household. Doesn’t really spell-out the positive side of a grandparent’s role for such a family situation. Ghetto life in the video seems to be more about teenage kids selling drugs and hanging out and living a life that doesn’t seem very impoverished other than the setting. The only problem with, is that such a life often ends with death. Another issue is that life seems to be rundown, but everyone is dressed well and appears to be doing ok, at least financially. The impression you get from reading the e lyrics gives you a different image of the people involved in the day-to-day struggle.

3.”We out of the projects/Jumped into another form of slavery” means that living in the projects often feels like a slave colony with the residents serving a brutal system. It is important to understand that saying “We out of”. Is slang for saying “we are from”. The slavery is lived in the projects includes young mothers to be addicted to the crack the homeless bag ladies and grandmother’s who the one’s that raise children. This grandmother’s are regularly attacked by crucks who lives in the projects they bit them and still their money and buy drugs. The grandmother’s are usually left alone when they got old they end up in nursing homes. Tupac has own memory’s of his grandmother who took cares of him while his mother worked. His grandmother though him everything he knows.
Other grandmothers took cars of their grandchildren too. Because is that only way raise children in the ghetto. The young mother usually works living and young fathers are usually dead or in prison. The children don’t have any education except what their grandmother’s provide. “And ghetto granny’s are like books” In the poem Tupac is urging his listeners to tried to solve their problems of their ghetto slavery. To help everything to be responsible.

4. Yes , is seems that there are many differences from Langston Hughes approach to death from Tupac Shakur’s .” Night Funeral in Harlem” speaks of a funeral procession done properly, almost lavishly for someone who is mourned by friends and family. And what made the funeral truly grand, were the tears shed in homage of the deceased. Tupac also speaks of tears twice in his poem and in the video his mother is wearing all black and is crying at what appears to be the young man’s funeral or wake . The mother is properly dressed for occasion and appears alone and very sad. Other than this, there is little that indicates a funeral or wake is taking place. It doesn’t seem like the mother has much support in any of this, there is no presence of flowers, or a preacher, hearse, etc. There is also not much love shown for the young “fallen warrior” by anyone other than his mother. In Tupac’s poem, he speaks of death from a first person’s point of view where in Hughes’ poem he is speaking of another man’s funeral. The emotion I would use to describe “Night Funeral in Harlem” would be love. The proper funeral was grand not because of superficial reasons, but because of the tears that were shed for this man who was “so dear”. In the case of the funeral in the video the strongest emotions I have considers of the mother of the dead boy here pain is to deep and I feel sorry for her because their is only her chilled. She appears not to have any family or any support by friends and she appears that she would be unable forgot her pain.

5. “Blue is a vocal and instrumental form of music based on the use the of the blue notes and a repetitive pattern that most often follows a twelve-bar structure”.
http:en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blues. It comes from African-American communities from spiritual work songs. There were no separation between “blues” and “country” music. In Hughes poem “night Funeral in Harlem’ I see he is telling about night funeral which he is saying story about death of young man so Hughes poem and blues have lot of similarity.