Incident By Countee Cullen Essay
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Countee Cullen’s poem “Incident” is a poem that mainly focuses on the events of racism and the effects that it has on the victims, in this particular case a young boy. It’s written in simple style and describes the terrible experience and the effects that one single action has on a young person’s mind.
Using the vivid imagery, the speaker invites the reader to follow his memories with him.
The poem starts with the joyful story of the young boy in Baltimore with the speaker describing his excitement and the sense of adventure for his “vacation” but in the second stanza we can clearly see the shift on line 4-8 “Now I was eight and very small, And he was no bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.”
Countee Cullen’s poem “Incident” is a poem that mainly focuses on the events of racism and the effects that it has on the victims, in this particular case a young boy. It’s written in simple style and describes the terrible experience and the effects that one single action has on a young person’s mind.
Using the vivid imagery, the speaker invites the reader to follow his memories with him.
The poem starts with the joyful story of the young boy in Baltimore with the speaker describing his excitement and the sense of adventure for his “vacation” but in the second stanza we can clearly see the shift on line 4-8 “Now I was eight and very small, And he was no bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.”