I AM a ROCK
...h as “…dark December” and “A winter’s day” that distinguish his perspective of happiness from that of Nikki Giovanni. From “The World Is Not A Pleasant Place To Be” she uses river, stream, ocean, and clouds as her images. Her terms describe her poem, in a glory state rather than that of Paul Simon’s gloomy situation. Paul Simon’s usage of imagery portrays the disheartened features in his poem. The poets convey different attitudes in the poems. Paul Simon employs phrases “I build walls” and “It’s laughter and its loving I disdain” to express his reaction towards human interaction and how it effects people. Throughout his point of view he sounds angry, regretful and further more to the negative extent. Nikki Giovanni’s phrases are more toward the calm side. She uses nature as an effect to show gent...