Sharon Olds poem, On the Subway, brings up the topic of race and the views of both different cultures. She presents an abundance of discriptive terms displaying a story in your head. Olds explains these different views of how other individuals see people who are white or black. She sets the tone of judgement of the two different races. Beginning the poem with the discriptions of what the boy wears showed the contrast of herseld as well who was wearing a more poshe attire. She had on a fur coat while the boy was dressed in a more rough, raggy attire. “I am wearing dark fur…” where as he is wearing “black sneakers laced with white in complex pattern.” These examples show the contrast of the two individuals sinse of stylw and their