The_Souls_Of_Black_Folks

The Souls Of Black Folks “The Souls of Black Folk” W. E. B. Du Bois uses metaphors frequently in his writings to describe the feelings and life of being black. He discusses how people were treated, how they were looked at by white Americans, progression of the changing world, and how a Negro would not change, doing so by using metaphors. Du Bois discusses this in the four following metaphors. One metaphor in Du Bois’s writing is “shut out from their world by a vast veil.” This metaphor is referring to the black Americans and white Americans being different. The black Americans were treated differently. The black Americans think that they are as unimportant as the whites’ think they are. Also, meaning that the white Americans cannot accept the blacks as Americans because of their skin color. The blacks did not have a chance to show the withes who they really were or show Americans what they could offer them. The second metaphor is “of measuring one’s soul by the tape of a world.” This means that the blacks could not act the way they wanted to. The blacks had to act the way the whites wanted them. americans, white, metaphor, du, black, bois, blacks, being, world, negro, wanted, whites, way, treated, soul, skin, progression, metaphors, means, meaning, discusses, different, day, color, another, wrote, think, things, show, seeing, pillar, people, one, offer, night