Incident By Countee Cullen Essay -- Poetry Racism

Literary Appreciation 1- Incident by Countee Cullen Incident, is a meter that was written to make us as readers think, not only about racism but also about how one occasion can chuck up the sponge us to judge a race, or a place. Racism is an issue that plagues not only African-Americans but also other creeds, genders, and races. In this essay I will discuss the poem and the role that racism took within it, by using personal knowledge, the text, and obtained research.The poem in its self takes on a rhyme scheme that allows you the reader to feel the narrator, so that you can not only imagine that you were there, but you can also almost gather the same feelings as the narrator. In the begin he talks about how he first rode through Baltimore happy, and filled with glee. Unti...