Question

Re-read the following lines from “A Black Man Talks of Reaping”.
“Yet what I sowed and what the orchard yields
my brother's sons are gathering stalk and root;
small wonder then my children glean in fields
they have not sown, and feed on bitter fruit.”
What is the tone of Bontemps’ poem "A Black Man Talks of Reaping"?

Question 5 Practice Options:

a)
hopeful


b)
bitter


c)
compassionate


d)
greedy

Answer 1

C