The poem Tableau (for Donald Duff) written by Countee Cullen, shows the.
friendship of two young boys, one black and the other one white as they walk down the.
street "locked arm in arm" (line 1). The colored "folks would stare" (line 5) and the white.
"folks would talk" (line 6), saying that these two dare not walk with each other. The two.
boys continue to walk down without caring about what anybody has to say. It reinforces.
the concept that friendship has no color boundaries. The message in this poem conveys.
that the boys maintained their friendship, despite the criticisms of their interracial.
relationship. "Tableau" is a three-stanza poem that utilizes rhyme, imagery and metaphor. .
The structured rhyme scheme of this particular poem is brilliant. It is three-stanzas.
long, with four lines per stanza. Cullen wrote this poem as an iambic tetrameter. The.
poem follows a regular rhyme scheme (ABAB CDCD EFEF). Every other ending line.
rhymes; "way" (line 1) and "day" (line 3), "white" (line 2) and "night" (line 4), "stare".
(line 5) and "dare" (line 7), "talk" (line 6) and "walk" (line 8), "word" (line 9) and.
"sword" (line 11), and "wonder" (line 10) and "thunder" (line 12). The poem may be.
short but it is filled from top to bottom with useful and meaningful information and words.
Cullen's use of imagery adds color and life to the poem. It makes the reader feel.
as if they are in the poem. The way he talks about the "lowered blinds the dark folk stare.
and here the fair folk talk" (line5-6) makes the reader able to visualize the two boys.
walking down the street with their arms linked together and having everyone staring and.
sneering at them. The boys are carefree not worrying about what the others are saying. .
"Oblivious to look and word, They pass and see no wonder" (lines 9-10). The boys either.
do not understand the concept of racism yet or obviously do not care.
Metaphors play a major role in the poem.
