His regrets at his inability to grab opportunities when the time was right.
<h3>What was the main message of the poem?</h3>
The poem, "The red palm" tells the story of a man who had labored because of his inability to take his education seriously. Now he suffers at a cotton farm.
When he retires at night, he is filled with regrets and this might have pointed to the sore lights that he saw.
