The poem “Death of an Old Carriage Horse,” poet George Moses Horton reflects on the miserable, unfortunate life of an overworked and unacknowledged carriage horse, told to keeps “push along”. The entire poem reads like one long metaphor, with extensive meaning, an enchanting tone, and repetition about Horton’s life as a slave and many other slave who felt this way. George Moses Horton was born in Northampton County, North Carolina, around 1797. Born into slavery, Horton taught himself how to read and write with help of people along the way and even made a some money selling his love poems to university students. In 1829, Horton's poetry was published in a Massachusetts newspaper, the Lancaster Gazette. In the same year, Horton became the first black man to publish a book in the American South with a collection of poems titled The Hope of Liberty. Horton's last years were spent in …show more content…
One of the themes that the poem tried to display without giving it way was, a person should never give up, even with the situation is impossible, just keep pushing forward. If a person is told this enough they will actually start to believe that they can keep going and deal with the situation wherever the cards my fall, even if it wasn't in the person’s favor.
Tone of a poem is always important and the "Death of an Old Carriage Horse,deliverers a sad and painful aspect. Making the poem really come to life because the reader can understand that carriage horse has been through a lot.But still had th e mindset to push along even when he really didn't want to. The reader can make the connection to Horton's life saying even though his life was sad and sometimes painful like the carriage horse he still pushed along and made something of himself. Which is something to be proud of because many individuals stop halfway when it gets to