It is all about what can be imagined while reading the poem. Some can imagine the speaker sitting and looking back on his life and dreams writing this. He could also be saying this in front of a class as a project. No one really knows the exact setting. Although, it is up to the reader, where ever you imagine the speaker that’s where he is. When reading a poem, it is all about imagination and what you get out of it. Even though the setting and point of views that one person sees might be different than others, that is what makes the variety of poetry so special. Although, if we really wanted to identify the setting, we could look back at the slavery times and that’s when it was written so maybe it was written in terms of a slave who was in
It is all about what can be imagined while reading the poem. Some can imagine the speaker sitting and looking back on his life and dreams writing this. He could also be saying this in front of a class as a project. No one really knows the exact setting. Although, it is up to the reader, where ever you imagine the speaker that’s where he is. When reading a poem, it is all about imagination and what you get out of it. Even though the setting and point of views that one person sees might be different than others, that is what makes the variety of poetry so special. Although, if we really wanted to identify the setting, we could look back at the slavery times and that’s when it was written so maybe it was written in terms of a slave who was in