Grant's permenant rank was first lieutenant, but he received brevets for both first lieutenant and captain at Molino del Rey and Chapultepec. During the Mexican-American War and his service in it, Grant started to formulate his own beliefs and judgments about warfare.
The first gentle rapping at the narrator's door occurred at the beginning of the poem.ran can you rap? Can you rap? â¦ Can you, Gran? And she opened one eye and said to me, man, I'm the best rapping Gran this world's ever seen I'm a tip-top, slip-slap, rap-rap queen. And she rose from her chair in the corner of the room And she started to rap with a bim-bam-boom.
The poem seems to describe an argument between two people. From the way it was written, it may be that the way the couple felt was what the poem is talking about. The way they walk in single file rather than side by side. They look forward instead of each other. This was probably after a very bad argument that left both people feeling bad.