ANY HUMAN TO ANOTHER

Humans are all connected to one other. When one person feels oppression, their entire race is affected. This theme is evident in the line, "Your grief and mine must intertwine like a sea and river be fused and mingle." All of human kind experiences sorrow, and what may seem like a personal struggle is shared by many. Oppression is something that can stay with a person forever.

-Racism: Black people faced numerous injustices and racially charged hardships. When one black person faced inequalities due to their culture, the whole race struggled.

-Modernism: The poem is written in a contemporary way with an interesting and unique rhyming pattern.