A black man talks of reaping

An author’s indirect reference to a famous person, event, or another work of art is called an allusion. Notice how in his poem “A black man talks of reaping,” Arna Bontemps alludes to Langston Hughes’s poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” and to the Bible. For example, the words black man talks call to mind Hughes’s Negro speaks. The word reaping alliterates with Hughes’s word rivers. And Bontemps use of the terms sown and reaping allude to the Bible. Write a poem in which you allude to another work of literature, either one that you have recently read or one that is commonly known.