Question

What is the message of the poem "Disappointed" by Paul Laurence Dunbar?

Answer 1

Answer:

A man plants seeds to provide food for himself in his declining years. But the weather turns, and the man’s orchard is bare: ‘The old man stood in the rain, uncaring, / Viewing the place the storm had swept; / And then with a cry from his soul despairing, / He bowed him down to the earth and wept.’ But the poem ends on a note of perseverance and defiance. A fine poem from an early African American poet.