Question

Read the excerpt from "On the Bus with Rosa Parks."

Rosa
How she sat there,
the time right inside a place
so wrong it was ready.

In this excerpt, the poet’s narration reveals

the poet’s feeling of pride in Rosa Parks.
Rosa Parks’s feeling of fear on the bus.

Answer 1

The poet’s feeling of pride in Rosa Parks.

The lines (“How she sat there,” “the time right”) show admiration for her calm, courageous act in a setting described as “so wrong,” rather than expressing fear.