· Video number twenty-eight in the A T Short series: Nikki Giovanni reads her poem "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day." Each A T Short has its own message (sometimes. Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day. Rarely does the truth seem so comforting as when Giovanni shares her candid observations about the struggles of the African-American woman in the s. In this collection of poems, the poet’s human flaws are endearing, her sadness is enlightening and her loneliness speaks for an entire community. Available at Folkways. A pivotal work in Nikki Giovanni's career, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day is one of the most poignant and intorspective of all Giovanni's collections. Moving from the emotionally fraught political arena to the intimate realm of the personal, the poems in this volume express a conflicted consciousness and the disillusionment shared by so many during the early s, when the dreams of the Civil Rights era Cited by: 2.
Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day. This poem describes hardships the speaker is facing regarding her identity in society. With an intensely melancholic tone, the speaker talks about fading away into life's dullness and darkness - characterized as "gray of my mornings" and "blues of every night.". She tries to minimize her problems by. Cotton candy on a rainy day: poems Item Preview remove-circle Share or Embed This Item. Cotton candy on a rainy day: poems by Giovanni, Nikki. Publication date Publisher New York, N.Y.: Quill 14 day loan required to access EPUB and PDF files. IN COLLECTIONS. In the poem Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day Nikki Giovanni uses emotion, objects, and the duality between dark and light to establish the idea of the world needing affection in order for it to change which would help "better" it as opposed to letting it just "melt away".
Video number twenty-eight in the A T Short series: Nikki Giovanni reads her poem "Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day." Each A T Short has its own message (sometimes. Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day. In the poem, Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day, the speaker takes more time to get her point across then usual being that this poem is longer than most. The speaker addresses her issues with the audience in stanza one where she states “Don’t look now; I am fading away into the gray of my mornings.”. Cotton Candy on a Rainy Day. Rarely does the truth seem so comforting as when Giovanni shares her candid observations about the struggles of the African-American woman in the s. In this collection of poems, the poet’s human flaws are endearing, her sadness is enlightening and her loneliness speaks for an entire community.
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