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 imagery of the poem is very different from the language. The true happiness of the speaker (Heart-filled,... Countee Cullen's poem Incident contains informal and conversational language. Cullen's use of first person (I) shows the speaker as telling his (assumed to be a male speaker) own story. This first person perspective allows the reader to connect with the speaker (based upon the story-telling aspect of the poem).