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.
Toomerâs diction also adds to the overall meaning and the impact of the poem on its readers. The opening line of the poem identifies who the reapers are in just one word: âblack.â This sets the whole tone of the rest of the poem and gives the reader a visual of whom the narrator is describing.he rhyme scheme is aabbccdd, and the poem is written in iambic pentameter. âReapersâ is only one verse or stanza. Toomer employs many poetic devices to convey his message to the reader. These poetic devices include alliteration, consonance, and imagery.