Solomon Nguyen 1/29/15 English Per.4 A Powerful Enduring Bond of Affection An influential Renaissance writer, James Weldon Johnson, composed a poem “My City” that reflects on his hometown, Manhattan, where he mentions how much the city means to him when he passes away and the losses he will have. Through the uses of diction, symbolism, repetitions, capitalizations, punctuations, personifications, and lots of sensory images, he emphasizes tone and conveys a powerful theme to the reader that the ones…
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