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The poem,”The Black Man’s Son” was written by Oswald Durand.This story was 
about a black man falling in love, with a white woman thinking the black and white 
folks was good because they came together in church.While their son was also 
black but too dark for her.The black was afraid of the white folks.

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The poet’s intends to make the reader understand that black or white we are all 
one,created in an image of god and dont matter what love cannot separate us 
from one another

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The poet creates the feeling of tender to be sympathetic,loving and touched by the 
way the mother find the child was too dark for her when we it doesn’t matter what 
we look like on the outside but the inside.

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The poet’s tone is described as empathic.His empathy can be shown when he

said,”and when she blushed in fear or in delight pomegranates seem to 
bloom.This shows that he understands his love for her.

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The theme of this story is it doesn’t matter how you look its how u look in the 
inside because the pretty smiles are the ones with evil minds,black or white we are 
one nation.

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The Languages used was English and our second language Spanish both 
together used to make this poem.

Elijah Melville - Poetry Analysis - Assessment 4

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