The poem “Incident,” by Countee Cullen, is one that could be described as a piece of Lyric Poetry. This is because it is a short poem that focuses in on the emotion of the poem, not the speaker or the event as much. Cullen shows how the happy feelings at the beginning of the poem change drastically to the hateful feelings at the end of the poem. After reading this poem, I found it very …showed first 75 words of 660 total…

…showed last 75 words of 660 total…his entire stay in Baltimore, and even though he stayed for months…that incident was all that was remembered. The well-known theme in this poem was the issue of racism. There is no age requirement in being the victim of racism, and the results of this can be fatal. “Incident” was an excellent poem with a not so excellent theme, but still just as enjoyable, if not more enjoyable than others that I have read.