The Baltimorean
The incident of "Incident" occurs when the speaker experiences a moment of hateful racism at the hands of another little boy—the "Baltimorean." We don't know anything about this fellow, except th...
The Diction of Storytelling
When we read "Incident," we definitely feel the distance between who the speaker is at the present moment of the poem, and who he was at the time of the incident on the bus. There's a retrospective...