G.5+Theme

=**Theme**=


 * //A Black Man Talks of Reaping//**

The synthetic theme of this literary poem is the familiar streaks of **hardship**. Thus because of severe amount of work the black man gives to recieve. "In this poem he uses the metaphor of farming to express the bitterness felt by blacks in a racist America. The message of the poem is that black Americans have labored long and hard only to look on while white Americans reap, or harvest, the benefits."


 * //Storm Ending//**



The literal theme of the poem or the author's message is that a thunder storm can be pleasant and captivating, that they can be gorgeous instead of just bringing apprehension into people's hearts. Nature is beautiful and should be appreciated. The double meaning that this poem can provide is that the storm relates to the ending of slavery. The rumbling are the shouts of joy from freed slaves. The clapping is also from the freed slaves. The rain are the tears of joy. The sun coming out from the thunder symbolizes the happiness and ending of slavery. The storm is the civil war against the black race and the addition of the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments to the constitution.