Hayes offers a light hope
Hayes offers a light hope because the speaker humanizes the young man in jail, showing how the less privileged can be lifted from criminal operations with their acceptance to gain knowledge. The speaker noticed the boys willingness to progress themselves, an act which humanizes them. The humanization of the speaker towards the boys shows the audience that whether the boys are criminals or not, they are people who make mistakes and should be allowed to change and improve. The reader symbolizes bread and tiny rice to be knowledge because knowledge strengthens individuals to uplift themselves from adversity. The speaker shows how the power of knowledge can assist people can move from their past to fulfill their goals.
The book flow through the theme of change (Hayes, 2017). The change is gaining knowledge persona who sees boys’ determination to improve themselves by seeing them as humans instead of criminals. However, the speaker enjoys the change of achieving crimeless life in a controlled environment. The speaker goes ahead and says life is easy via knowledge power (Hayes, 2017). The poem also flows mindfully across other themes like masculinity, race, language, identity, art, family, and history.
Long ago, numerous poems were sung to music, but currently, speakers tend to read them on a page after writing them. Poems are written so that people can read it at their own pace and react to every line. The poem can be translated into a song by giving listeners a good time to absorb every image. Every idea in the poem should focus on one line, and if the lines are too small, then two or more lines should be combined. Sweet contemporary songs make use of a pattern of more than two sections to make a song structure. For Hayes poem, you pick a line you admire and then use every word in the line while retaining the order. If, for example, a line of six words is taken, then the song will have six lines long. As every poets love to act per the rules, Hayes pushes a bit of his rules by making use of more lines and applying each word from the brooks poem.