In this poem Claude McKay describes how even though America seems to hate him a lot, he uses that hate as fuel to rise up against

This picture represents hope because even though these people are being sold they believe they can create a new life in the city.

Here are 5 reasons that this poem qualifies as a Sonnet. 1.The poem has couplets 2.the lines rhyme in a certain order 3.the last couplet is the only rhyming couplet 4.it contains 14 lines 5.the last couplet is the main idea or the thesis

I like this poem becuase it has humor and some liveliness in the rhyming but it also has some seriousness in the fact that thye story is about a woman with no one to love.