Respond to the following questions:
1. (“Stupid America”) What is Delgado’s attitude toward the people in the poem?
2. What does the person “with a big knife” desire?
3. Why do you think the poem is titled “Stupid America”?
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1. Who does the speaker feel is the target of the “sharp-shooting goose-steppers” (line 23)?
2. What land does the speaker call “my land” in “Poem for the Young White Man…?
3. Why does the narrator of “Poem for the Young White Man…” says first, “I am not a revolutionary” (line 13), and then in the next stanza, ” I believe in revolution” (21)?
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