Incident
:What accounts for the effectiveness of the last stanza? Comment on the title. Is it in key with the meaning of the poem?
The last stanza shows how much the speaker is frustrated after hearing the demeaning word from a guy who is similar in his age and size. He said, “I saw the whole of Baltimore” in line 9. It describes that he views the whole Baltimore as a racist city after getting insulted. Before the speaker experienced this incident, he seems to be a friendly and naïve boy as it says in line 7 “And so I smiled”. The incident changed the boy’s view of other people and he labeled the whole city to be racist.
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