USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Emotional pain is often something that cannot be seen, and so it must be expressed through words. When one person expresses his sorrows to another, like an arrow, it pierces into the other person’s soul, allowing them to share in the pain and suffering of their fellow human being.

Detailed explanation-2: -Stanza Four Lewis, again, the speaker makes a distinction between humans and angels in the fourth stanza. While an angel may be able to “see the form of air” only a human can breathe it in and “drink the whole summer down into the breast”.

Detailed explanation-3: -The poem is from Cullen’s last book of verse, The Medea, and Some Poems, published in 1935. Because Cullen was an African–American writer who often addressed racial themes, there is probably much about his experience of bigotry that influenced this poem, although racial issues are not directly mentioned.

Detailed explanation-4: -Literary Devices Metaphors: “A little tent/Pitched in a meadow/Of sun and shadow/All his little own.” Meter: Changing meter every stanza. Tone: Reflective, wise, sorrowful.

Detailed explanation-5: -The poem recalls a childhood “incident” in which the speaker’s life is forever altered when another child uses a racist slur against him in public. The poem’s carefree beginning contrasts with the sudden, horrific reality of this moment, which intrudes on the speaker’s otherwise happy memory of this time in his life.