Poetry has many legs that take readers places and forces them to see things in different perspectives. Nikki Giovanni’s poem “Allowables” articulates subliminal meanings that revolve around the death of a spider. This poem illustrates someone...

Art is not stagnant but, it is reflective and as it progresses relies on a thorough historical narrative to guide its future advances. The boom of the civil rights movement in the 1960s highlighted how this historical narrative has been almost...