Explain the sentence, “She at first lacked the depravity indispensable to shutting me up in mental darkness.” From: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
By Frederick Douglass

When Douglass first lived with his mistress, she was not depraved enough to forbid him from learning to read and write. Sadly, she did become that way later in the story.

Explanation:

try to do soaps tone.

s-subject

o-occasion (the reason the author wrote the poem)

a-audience (who is this poem mostly for)

p-purpose (was it to convince, inspire, etc. the audience)

s-speaker (can be the author or another character, like is a child, adult, woman, elderly, animal narrating the poem)

tone- the mood the reader gets from this poem

mood- the mood the author had with their own poem

meaning- what do you think the meaning is?

message- what is the author trying to explain to the audience? like what is the theme?

if you still don't get it try showing everyone the poem so they could unravel it

"the sandy walls seemed to collapse in on themselves"

and

"the bloodshot waters seemed to have no bottom"