Blackout Poem “Death of a Salesman”

 

 

 

Death of a salesman

By Arthur Miller

 

“Death of a salesman” by Arthur Miller is a play shows the struggle of a salesman which in this case the salesman is willy loman all willy worries about his family’s financial struggles and that he cares for both his boys Biff and Happy. Later on in the play you figure out that will sees a woman in Boston when he goes to his business trips but the guilt gets to him and he tries to kill himself but is unsuccessful which ends up messing with his mental state of mind.

How this play fits the genre of the tragedy is that, tragedies usually have sad ending and what is more sad then then main character driving off in his car and killing himself

In this English 11 class students were asked to pick a random book or newspaper and find key word that relate to the word “tragedy” or relates to the play “Death of a salesman” which will help with their final assignment which is the blackout poem and a blackout poem is when a poet takes a marker (usually black marker) to already established text–like in a newspaper–and starts redacting words until a poem is formed in the picture about shows a car driving down a road and its referring to when will tries to kill himself in his car multiply times but the final time he was gone for good.

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