For my creative piece I was wanted to write a poem. My inspiration for this task was tropicalism. Webster defines tropical as "Of relating to, the characteristic of a region". Tropicalism in Brazil is "The idea to take the Brazilian values the trashy ones as well as the good ones, the ugly ones as well as the beautiful ones and incorporate them into its art". In attempting to write this poem I wanted to bring up five aspects of Brazilian culture. Using the Tropicalism take on this poem; to illustrate the good of the country I focused on family structure and the issue of race, to illustrate the bad/ugly values of the country I wrote about the methods used in colonization, for the beautiful aspects of the Brazilian I used the carnivals that are popular in Brazilian culture. My sources of information were a Brazilian Popular Music web site ( http://www.maria-brazil.org/mpb1.htm), movies The House of the Spirits and Black Orpheus, and the American encyclopedia.
             We can unite and beat our opposition
             We must stand until our children have better land
             So join me and stand for what is right
             If I had my way life would be just fine
             But the world is too cold and it makes me cry
             and turning my back, but we have worked to hard
             We out number the enemy so lets be wise and start a revolution
             Because a real man will die fighting
             So stand stand stand and we will own better land
             And we struggled with the dictatorship of our early days
             But not till the point we are drunk, and forget thee
             ...