The power of poetry lies in suggestion and understatement. Discuss this with reference to the poem.

Understatement means presenting something showing it less important than it really is. Thus, understatement expresses the idea of the poetry that it I very understating to decide someone’s character with his or her colour. The suggestion with the reference to poem is that colour is never a fact that will decide what person actually is. The conversation between lady and tenant states that the thinking level of people still lies upon skin colour which actually shows that how biased people are in deciding others character.