They Say It That He Is A Criminal

They say it that he is a criminal,
But I find it not the truth in their statement
Implicating him pathetically,
A poor fellow he is.

They say it that he is a criminal
Whereas he saying to that he is not,
Has been implicated falsely
After gathering evidences,
I mean the police and the lawyers,
One the boss of the bad fellows
While the other charging fees
For justice sake,
Honing his poor knowledge and wisdom
To be a good lawyer.

The incumbent into their net had not been a criminal,
But has become,
None but we made him turn into,
His company, society and friendship
Tempted and lured him
With the colourful dreams of their own
And he got trapped in accidentally.

Poetry analyser:

The author says that the whole world thinks that justice is doing wrong. However, the author thinks otherwise. There is a hint of bribery in the second stanza to get the innocent one into more trouble. The lawyer is a person that defines justice yet he is excepting bribes and shirking his duty to uphold the law and righteousness.The officers themselves became criminals because of the temptations of the society and his company. They had dreams to uphold the law and justice yet they got trapped because of their own greed. They had made attempts to make an impartial and unbiased justice system yet they had failed because the people responsible for upholding justice were lured into temptations , temptations which destroyed all their efforts. The author states that the temptations were caused by the competition to live up in the society and to have a good reputation. 

Can't get no justice by Eric Cockrell

black man
in them poverty chains
cant get no justice
in them sterile white courts.

blue collar man
in them grimy working chains
cant get no justice
in them insulated courts.

freedom man
in them speak out chains
cant get no justice
in them walled off courts.

poor woman, ha!
in them second class chains
cant get no justice
in them man-god courts.

you and me
in them angry tired chains
cant get no justice
in them fictional courts!

Poetry Analyser:
The poet wrote this poem to express his dissatisfaction of the way that people are treated. The first stanza shows that the poet is lamenting of how Africans Americans are being treated. The poet uses "poverty chains" to paint an image on the readers mind, of a black man being caught as slaves and cannot get any freedom, and the writer also stresses on the different courts where they get justice. The similarity in all ideas in this is that the afro-american people just can't get justice in any type of courts.

No Crime Beyond Forgiveness by Linda Winchell

There is no crime beyond forgiveness,
It is every persons need,
For all anger that is harbored,
In not forgiving ones misplaced, misguided deed.

No true crime has been committed,
Just words said in angers haste,
Left with the bitters of its spoils,
For ones tongue, left to taste.

To show another forgiveness’s venerability,
Is not an easy task, I know,
But it is what God asks of us,
To all our fellow man to show.

So if you are in need of forgiving,
Or maybe need some for yourself one day,
Be sure that you see it’s quickly given,
So you might happily, go about your day.

Poetry Analyser:

There is a saying " To err is human, To forgive is divine." The poet stated this in the third stanza, where she said that,"To show another forgiveness’s venerability, Is not an easy task, I know," The poet uses this poem to reach out to the family members of convicts and trying to tell them that they should learn to forgive the convicts. From the line, "No true crime has been committed, Just words said in angers haste," and " In not forgiving ones misplaced, misguided deed." shows that the poet is trying to tell the family members that the convicts are only misguided at that point and they only did something illegal out of recklessness. So he urged the family not to bear a grudge against the convicts. From the fourth stanza onwards, the poet then broke the fourth wall by talking to the readers, that if they ever need to forgive others, then do it quickly before it is too late.

Justice by Langston Hughes

That Justice is a blind goddess
Is a thing to which we black are wise:
Her bandage hides two festering sores
That once perhaps were eyes.

Poetry Analyser:

In this poem Justice by Langston Hughes which talks about how the justice system is biased against African American. Langston Hughes uses metaphor and rhyme to create a calm and simmering anger tone in this poem about how unfair Justice can be. “Justice is blind goddess” is a form of a metaphor that he uses. Justice is the court system and that it does not see any particular person. “Is a thing to which we black are wise, that once perhaps were eyes” is a form of rhyme. In the end he uses wise and eyes to rhyme.Some part the speaker had a calm tone but spoke with a simmering anger to how African American are treated when it comes to the law. Justice eyes are hidden by bandages to hide the truth which lies under. The speaker’s attitude does not change through out the story, because it does not have any exclamation marks to show anger. Justice some times hides the truth from sight. "Justice is the blind goddess" and "her bandages hides two festering sores" explain the unseeing ways of the law and court system. And by looking past the covers and underneath you will find the truth.

The Quality Of Mercy by William Shakespeare

The quality of mercy is not strain'd.
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest:
It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.
'Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes
The throned monarch better than his crown.
His scepter shows the force of temporal power,
The attribute to awe and majesty,
Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings;
But mercy is above this sceptered sway;
It is enthroned in the heart of kings;
It is an attribute to God himself;
And earthly power doth then show likest God's
When mercy seasons justice.

Poetry Analyser:

This is a scene from the Merchant Of Venice where Portia dressed up as a lawyer to defend Antonio. The poem started with Portia saying Mercy is a thing that just happen, nobody need to show it, it is just there. And so Portia was trying to persuade Shylock to show mercy on Antonio with the line 'It blesseth him that gives, and him that takes.' which meant that Mercy blesses the one who gives it and the one who receives it. In this poem, Portia personified Mercy to something which resembled God, for the person who shows mercy, had achieved God-like powers and that mercy shown has a greater value than a king's sceptre and crown. She also added on by saying 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest;' which meant only the strongest of people can achieve it. And so, although Shylock seemed to seek for justice, he failed to have Mercy mixed into the Justice that he speak of.

Introduction to Poetry Analyser

Welcome to our newly started Poetry analyser. This site is maintained by Roshan, Aadhi, Ze Wei and Vimal.  The theme we have chosen is Justice and Mercy. Justice and Mercy is a topic that will bring a very straightforward idea to our minds, that it is always fair and also the scales of Justice. However, that is not always the case. Many writers have tried to express their feelings of how justice was exercised in their time through the different types of literacy. Here we are analysing these poems so that we can better understand how the standards of Justice in the past were not the same as what they are today.