“From the Dark Tower” by Countee Cullen covers a lot of information in the fourteen lines that it has. All that information, however, revolves around the singular theme of past (and still somewhat current) racism in America. The purpose of this poem seems to be to describe the African-Americans’ struggles at the time, and to generally emphasize what African Americans generally had to go through at the time. Now, this poem has a substantial amount of symbolism and other figurative language laced within the few words it is composed of, that, once you know the history behind the poem, can be interpreted and understood with ease, and the aforementioned purpose of the poem can then be fulfilled. As previously mentioned, Cullen uses a lot