At the present time in literature, poets and people alike have discussed the tension between society and the african-american Society.Many argue that that the tension is non-repairable. Conversely, people say that it can be repaired as society makes it own changes.Three poets,Paul Laurence Dunbar, Claude McKay, and Jericho Brown debates that hope for change will remain if people view the tensions in different ways. In “Sympathy”, Paul Laurence Dunbar writes about a situation where hope is present.In the beginning of the Poem we read that a bird is caged with the dream of being free.In stanze two we see the bird is fighting even though it seem futile because of the sense of it never being able to escape.Not to mention Dunbar explains how the bird was beating his wing on its cage and how he’s losing hope a bit. At the end it shows that the bird is still Holding onto the sliver of hope.Similarly, It is what Dunbar is hoping for due to him feeling like he’s caged to something and hopes to become free. …show more content…
In the second stanza we see that the girl is still walking around through the town even though it is probably cold and they are underdressed with the hope of finding money or someone who won’t push them away.In the last Stanza we see that McKay is expressing his distaste in the world of it pushing away the girls and know that if they were caucausian they wouldn’t be treated this way. McKay shows the tension that one race is more inferior than the other, but it also shows that there’s hope that it would change