The year is 1872, slavery has ended with the Civil War seven years ago, and the
             now United States is undergoing the process of Reconstruction. Born in 1825, Frances E.
             W. Harper is 47 years old and a brilliant female African-American writer whose
             fingertips are on the heartbeat and pulse of voiceless women and blacks. In her
             frustration and perseverance, she sits down and pens "Aunt Chloe's Politics", a timeless
             attack on the politics of Reconstruction and the poem that is being analyzed in this essay.
             Harper's "Aunt Chloe's Politics" uses colorful, colloquial language, the events of the
             Civil War and Reconstruction Era, and the fearless tone of the speaker to depict the
             political condition of that time and provoke an emotional response from the reader.
             When reading this poem, the reader's attention is immediately drawn to the
             language that the author uses to portray the social class of the speaker. Lines
             like "I've seen 'em honey-fugle round..." gives the reader the impression that the
             speaker is not very educated and possibly black. Harper uses this type of language
             throughout the poem with phrases like "Though I thinks a heap of voting..." and "...this
             buying up of each other...". The ABCB rhyme scheme and compact structure of the
             piece accompanied with this colorful language leaves the reader with an accurate
             "Reconstruction Era" aftertaste. Among many other aspects, the language the author
             uses for this work becomes a wheel on the vehicle that delivers the message of equality
             Another wheel that Harper installed on her poetic machine is the accurate
             recollection of the events that led up to 1872 (when this poem was written). The Civil
             War had taken place and had been over for about seven years and the United State
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