"Black Betty" Ram Jam
A man by the name of Charles Simic once said, "Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them"(Quote Land). Poems have been written for thousands of years. When most people think of poetry, they either think of a sonnet, limerick, all the way down to a haiku. They also think that a poem is something that must be recited, but in reality a poem can also be sang as a song. Lately more and more songs that are being released have a story behind them, trying to express feelings of loneliness, death, or past experiences. One of the best examples would be rap. Rappers love to tell about "their" life in the city; when the times were rough because they were poor and all the violence going on. But rap isn't the only type of music that can be interpreted as a poem.
William Huddie Ledbetter was born on January 29th, 1885 in Louisiana (Ledbelly). Huddie was the world's greatest cotton picker, railroad track liner,......
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