As soon as I started to read the title of the poem, I felt that this poem was about a .
discriminatory treatment to the black people. It never said that the little black boy was a .
slave, but I wanted to assume that he was a slave. At that time when this poem was .
written, there was slavery in England and so antislavery movement sprang up among .
the poets. I think this poem already has social criticism in itself. After I read this poem .
first time, I felt like that:.
There is a black boy who can not mix with the white children in England .
because of the social classes (The black and slave). However, the boy becomes .
to get the equality in the future life and the vision of love through his mother's .
teachings. Finally, he overcomes the inequality in this world with his pure eyes. .
I read this poem again and again with the critical mind. I have some questions about the .
mother's teaching. Why do not mother explain the inequality in real world? Why does .
the mother try to relieve the current pain of the boy simply with the vision of equal life .
in the future world? .
The boy already begins to experience the social inequality in the first part of the poem. He was born in the southern wild, and he is black. The boy cannot live where he was .
born. He was sent to England through the slave trade and so He is living among the .
white children with neglected and discriminated by people. I think the boy unknowingly .
has a racial prejudice, because he says that my soul is white' or White as an angel is .
the English child'. To this boy, the mother says that the life in this world doesn't have .
special meanings and is only a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love'.
The mother also says to the boy that black body is the evidence which God loves them .
more than the white, but she doesn't have self-conceit for her black body and presents it .
as only a cloud' which will vanish soon or a shady grove' which they will come out .