Can somebody please help me???!!! dont understand "coal" poem?

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i have to read the poem "coal" by audre lorde for my english class and write a power essay on it but i dont understand it can somebody please tell me whats its about?? its due by 8 o'clock tonight!

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I
is the total black, being spoken
from the earth's inside.
There are many kinds of open
how a diamond comes into a knot of flame
how sound comes into a words, coloured
by who pays what for speaking.


Some words are open like a diamond
on glass windows
singing out within the crash of sun
Then there are words like stapled wagers
in a perforated book - buy and sign and tear apart -
and come whatever will all chances
the stub remains
an ill-pulled tooth with a ragged edge.
Some words live in my throat
breeding like adders. Other know sun
seeking like gypsies over my tongue
to explode through my lips
like young sparrows bursting from shell.
Some words
bedevil me


Love is word, another kind of open.
As the diamond comes into a knot of flame
I am Black because I come from the earth's inside
Now take my word for jewel in the open light.

Answer 1

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put the poem on here so i can read it and answer ur question?


okay i think it is were hes expressing tht he feels that he isnt being hurd. that mother nature is turning agaisnt him and he feels like hes in a black hole of life. and thiers no excape and nobodys listening.

thats wut i get from it atleast...

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thank you