Question

"From the Dark Tower" is a sonnet where the eight lines present a problem and the final six present either a solution or a comment on it. What is the problem Cullen is presenting? What comment or solution does he come up with? Cite at least two lines from the poem in your explanation .

Answer 1

Answer:

This poem shows the problem of how African Americans were treated and Cullen's comment is that he does not lose hope, that this will change.

Explanation:

Cullen reflects on these lines that African Americans are somehow oppressed by whites. "We shall not always plant while others reap", "Not always bend to some more subtle brute".

This problem will come to an end, since they will not wait forever or continue to suffer.

"We were not made to eternally weep.", "So in the dark we hide the heart that bleeds,  And wait, and tend our agonizing seeds. "

Here it is shown how Cullen transmits hope in his words, showing that they will wait, since they will not suffer forever.