This question is based on General Literary Principles and Appreciation.
‘I thank you God for creating me black
For making of me
Porter of all sorrows
Sitting on my head
The World
I wear the Centaur’s hide
And I have carried the World since the first morning’.
‘I Thank You God’ by Benard Dadie
The poet’s attitude here is being
-
ironical
- whimsical
- sorrowful
- sarcastic