The sonnet "On The tram" by Sharon Olds portrays her encounters of her own life as an African American whatever other typical individual. Sharon utilizes many words that allude to her skin shading which is dark so she can be more particular and clear with her illustrations.
In the start of the of the lyric, we have Sharon experiencing a kid which is the inverse skin shading. " His feet are gigantic, in dark shoes bound with white in a mind boggling design like an arrangement of deliberate scars", Sharon is contrasting herself with the kid and how he has huge feet and dark tennis shoes which she doesn't have. The white bands truly mean something other than basic white bands that are the reason Sharon specified it. " He has