Read and follow the directions very carefully. In the poem "The Tradition," Brown lists the names of flowers and also the names of three African American men who were killed by police brutality. What is the connection/significance of this? After answering this, consider why the poem is titled "The Tradition." What does this suggest about the title of the full collection, which is also The Tradition? Use at least two well-integrated quotes to support your analysis. Requirements: • Write a paragraph of at least 350 words in response to the above prompt. This includes the first word of the response to the last word of the response; the title, heading, and Work(s) Cited page are not included in the word count. Please submit a paragraph rather than an essay. • Follow the MLA Format instructions from Module 0. Use in-text, parenthetical citations in MLA format each time you paraphrase, summarize, or quote directly from a source. • Include a corresponding MLA-formatted Works Cited page. Use third-person academic voice. Do NOT use first person (I, me, my, we, us, our) or second person (you, your). • Use the literary present tense (say "the narrator writes in her journal" not "the narrator wrote in her journal"). Save and submit your work as either Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or a Rich .​

The Tradition, envisions the US social and political landscape as a pastoral. Brown’s pastoral, however, deals neither with the romance of the countryside, nor the sublimity of wilderness, but with the nature that we live among, cultivate, feed, and tend to in contemporary life: lawns, flower beds, the green spaces outside our windows. On one hand, that which grows in this country is beautiful, bountiful, joyful: the tenderness between lovers, or the speaker’s mother who “grew morning glories that spilled onto the walkway toward her porch / Because she was a woman with land who showed as much by giving it color” (“Foreday in the Morning”). At the same time, Brown’s pastoral reminds us that “All land owned is land once stolen” (“After Avery R. Young”), and that sometimes what we love is “green with deceit” (“I Know What I Love”), as the poems examine the other traditions that this country has nourished and sustained: racism, police brutality, mass shootings, sexual violence.

at the beginning of the story, elisa just has the small idea of wanting more attention, but as the story progressed, her desire for more attention grew larger. before she talked to the man with the wagon she was just focused on her chrysanthemums but when she talked to him and got some attention she enjoyed it, so she decided to get all dolled up for henry. but when they were on the way to dinner she was so upset because she saw the flowers on the side of the road and realized the man didn't take interest in her like she thought.

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