Overall feeling:
The poem has an angry, dark mood to it because he
feels bad that he has been discriminated against. He also feels the
world's turn on him because he can't buy food without being punished
because of the color of his skin. The last stanza of the poem has
a depressed/bleak outlook on the author's future because if he can't
make it in his own town how is suppose to make it in the world.
Caption: This painting made during the
Harlem Renaissance could symbolize that blacks were prisoners of society.
