THERE IT IS Jayne Cortez

At the outset this poem strikes the leftist cord in me. The poem seems to start in the middle of a thought since it starts with "And". I get a feel that I entered a room in the middle of a conversation. She speaks poignantly and her statements are thought provoking. The poem begins telling the listener that: If we don't… resist, organize and unify, get the power to control then we will… she tells of the consequences. The 'ifs' are quite matter of fact, while the 'thens' are emphasized by the use of strong adjectives such as exaggerated, bizarre, dehumanized, decomposed to describe captivity, submission, suicide, fear, repression. She uses repetition to further exaggerate her point, "if we, if we, if we"' and, "the, the, the, and the" and towards the conclusion, forever and ever and ever. She then repeats the last sentence with the same start of the first sentence of the poem "And".