2. What is the theme of Countee Cullen’s “Any Human to Another”? How does Cullen develop this theme, stanza by stanza, though imagery and figurative language?

The theme that Cullen is trying to portray is to grief with one another and not be overconfident.

Explanation:

Throughout the poem you see how he uses the simile' " your grief and mine must intertwine like a sea and river," he's saying that you should talk to other people about your troubles and them to you. Throughout the stanzas you see more similes and metaphors that also contribute to the theme.

question:

it's when i'm weary of considerations, and life is too much like a pathless wood where your face burns and tickles with the cobwebs broken across it, and one eye is weeping from a twig's having lashed across it open

answer to question #1: the simile that occurs in the text given (lines 43-47) is: ''life is too much like a pathless ''

explanation: a simile is a comparison of one thing with another thing and it is used to make a vivid description. it uses like or as. in the text, we can understand that the person is feeling weary of considerations and because of this, the person compares ''life'' to ''a pathless wood''.

answer to question #2: in this text we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations and compares life to a pathless wood.

explanation: the word frost means coldness and something covered by ice crystals but looking at the comparison made in this text, we can understand that the word frost could mean anger, annoyance and bitterness, due to the fact that the person is stating that he/she is feeling weary of considerations therefore he/she compares life to a pathless wood.

there is no paragraph seven here.