The concept that African Americans live in an unfair society pervades the two poems, "A Black Man Talks of Reaping" and "From the Dark Tower." display more stuff... Throughout his poem, the tone indicates dissatisfaction with white society's mistreatment of the African American race. The first stanza expresses the black man's anger at being denied rights granted to whites: Anger fills his heart, but still he plows his farm - / For hate is stronger than love, they say. He says blacks are treated badly by most people, even though they work hard and obey the law. The last line contains a proverb meaning that hatred can never be overcome for something terrible has happened to this poor farmer. Maybe a bear stole his crops or someone threw acid in his face - we will never know because the black man was killed. Now listen carefully because I'm about to tell you how the tone works in this poem. First, note that all the lines except for the last one are divided into groups of three. This means that every third word begins with a consonant (b, c, d, f, g, h, j, k, l, n, p, q, r, s, t, v, w, x, y, z). Next, look at the last line of the poem. It doesn't contain any words that start with a consonant so the rhythm ends here.