The underlying theme of the poem is the slavery or the racial discrimination of the blacks in the American plantations.
Explanation:
Jean Toomer's "The Song of the Son" is a poem that displays the racial discrimination of the slaves that are working in the fields and plantations in the past. The given excerpt of the poem also mentions "<em>A song-lit race of slaves</em>", but even if the sun has set on that phase of time and history, it is upon the current generation not to forget the "<em>African- American experience</em>" that their forefathers had gone through in their time.
The theme of the poem is basically the American Discrimination. Discrimination is basically is a term which is used to define the difference b/w two groups on the base of some qualities etc. For example the American Discrimination was between black and white people.
They believed the Church of England was too similar to the Roman Catholic Church and should eliminate ceremonies and practices not rooted in the Bible.
Explanation:
Puritans felt that they had a direct covenant with God to enact these reforms.
