“fresh air” represents some where away from the ghetto where he is well-off and he is not in constant trouble and somewhere where he does not have a lot of problems. The third line means that because the man kept his dreams and was confident in his own abilities he was able to reach his goal. “It learned without having feet”, this part means that he had no help and he made it all by himself. True’s law” means that no one expected the man to survive and the ‘law’ was that no one could survive the ghetto and do something with their lives and so the man has proved this law wrong. The second line means that the person has made something out of himself. A rose would never grow from concrete and by this he is meaning to say that it is really hard to survive the hard life of the ghetto and make something out of yourself. The rose symbolizes a man and the concrete symbolizes the ghetto. The Rose That Grew From Concrete is not really about a rose that grew from the concrete. There is also a theme of keeping hope in both the poems. Analysis Outpace Shaker wrote both these poems and the poems are about having ambitions and goals and reaching them despite the circumstances.
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