Yusef Komunyakaa uses language in a similar way in his work .
Clifton does a wonderful job of using baseball metaphors and loaded language in order to write her poem about Jackie Robinson and include the racial barriers that he was breaking through at the time .
Yusef Komunyakaa uses language in a similar way in Jackie Robinson 's work .
Clifton does a wonderful job of using baseball metaphors and loaded language in order to write her poem about Jackie Robinson and include the racial barriers that he was breaking through at the time .