1. The incident by Countee Cullen
By Paul Neyman, Alan Yuen, Jonathan Pinhasov, Alex Vaynshteyn

2. The Incident
Once riding in old Baltimore, Heart filled, head-filled, with glee I saw a Baltimorean Keep looking straight at me. Now I was eight and very small, And he was no whit bigger, And so I smiled, but he poked out His tongue, and called me, “Nigger.” I saw the whole of Baltimore From May until December; Of all the things that happened there That’s all that I remember.

3. The Theme
This poem reflects on Countee Cullen experience in Baltimore where he was looking forward to go. Its showing what Cullen had gone through with his emotions in the poem. One line that describes his feelings was, “Of all the things that happened there that’s all that I remember.” This explains his real emotion because when he was in Baltimore that is the only memory that stuck out. Cullen describes in the poem the racial equality and segregation in the beginning of the 20th century and how he was impacted.