Talk about the irony reflected in Helene Johnsons Sonnet to a Negro with reference to the images used.

Thein this poem is
created as a result of the speaker's appreciation for the young black man she addresses. She
uses such positive words to describe him: magnificent,
perfect, towering, his voice is
rich, his laughter bold, his entire personage
splendid. She can see (visual ) his beauty, the way he chooses his own
path, refusing to "toil and sweat for labor's sake" as others do, refusing to wring
his hands and grasp their gold. He will not "urge ahead" his hard-to-please feet for
the same mundane reasons they do.

Such a magnificent person must surely
impress anyone and everyone he meets, right? That is what we would expect, and yet, she creates
other images which suggest that other peoplewhite peoplewill not see him as splendid. They will
see his "dark eyes flashing solemnly with hate"; they will view him as
"incompetent" and "barbaric." For them, "Scorn will efface each
footprint that [he] make[s]."...