E mentality.” Such lines as “To all my Nigg*s in the pen here we go again, ain’t nothing separating us from an exit” and “ We all soldiers in God’s eyes.”. The gangster lifestyle which Tupac preaches as natural, Allen believes is only the fake dreams of a child not yet grown into a man..The next thing he has troubles with is the fact that so much of Tupac’s music is a contradiction. Tupac often preaches of loving women, and caring for them, yet so often he also tears them down, using obscenities to describe their lives, and hate filled words to describe his relation to them. This Allen sees as another showing of Tupac’s immaturity .Allen’s final problem with Tupac is that his music is no more than the normal. HE says Tupac’s music is no different than all the other products on the market. HE says it preaches about ideals that have been preached by people since the dawn of time. He states that the gangster role he uses to describe his views is nothing more than a hip-hop scarface movie. Finally he says that if it wasn’t for Tupac’s devastating good looks he would be a nobody, instead of an icon.Poem #1: SmileLiteralIn this poem Tupac says that his life is full of misery and hate. He tells about how scandalous a life he has to put up with, but that is what it took to succeed. He asks for no sympathy from anyone because this is the way it is. He believes that with hope you can make it, and he screams to people to have hope and goals. He asks for nothing from people but a smile, because this is the life he is given.FigurativeThis poem works on many levels and uses a lot of figurative language. The first thing used is imagery.Imagery is when something is described to create a mental picture and/or mood. Tupac uses such phrases as “Some see me in this land of hell jail and crack sales”. The descriptive phrase gives us an image of him stuck in hell, a b...
