ASIN: B00L079VHU
Publisher: Wes Writers and Publishers
Pages: 16
How I Got OverHow I Got Over is an elegy of love unrequited … (loving someone who doesn’t love you), or as this generation might say, “loving someone who don’t love you back.”Love can make you sing of joy and it can make you wail in pain. You’ll understand, if you've been through the trials and tribulations of life and love. Mahalia Jackson sang eloquently of those tribulations in, "How I Got Over." The song has deep roots and meaning. It reflects survival in the racist south and signifies endurance of the daily grind of living. She sang to take her audience from the valley of despair to the triumphant mountaintop.In this long poem, the narrator speaks of the trials and tribulations heaped on her by a selfish and uncaring lover. In the end she puts everything in the hands of a higher power. Her revenge is sweet, bitter, and symbolic.If you enjoyed this work, please take a look at these ...
