If We Must Die
If we must die : A summary
At the beginning when I started reading the poem “If we must die” I spent a long time thinking what does this poem mean and then I had to read it a couple of times to understand every sense of each word. Various question started running in my mind I became more interested in the poem as well as the writer. I tried to find out more information about the writer and different meanings for the poem. Indirectly, the poem clarify how black people were suffering from the way they were treated and how they were insulted. There is a very good point made throughout the poem and it doesn't matter what color you are. McKay was trying to say if it comes time for death will you not hold your honor until the last minute. Everyone should ask themselves if death comes your way will you fight until the end ? I’m sure the answer for most people is yes. It is better to try to fight for what you believe in and what you feel is honorable to yourself then leave the earth in an unrespectable way. Just like Mckay was trying to portray his feelings about this in his poem. In his poem Mckay said : “ If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot”
With this I believe he was trying to portray the feeling as if he is under attack. As if whoever was attacking him would only laugh at them and mock them from afar. Not even trying to lend a helping hand as people to try and save their lives. Mckay is saying if we must die then we must die with honor for ourselves and not let anyone see our suffering. The writer Claudius McKay was a black writer who was trying to deliver his emotion and his feeling about racism and prejudice onto papers. He was one of the substantial young writers who came to occurrence in through the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. In his poems, he tried to declaim his people out of his poem. Trying to tell them to be brave and
At the beginning when I started reading the poem “If we must die” I spent a long time thinking what does this poem mean and then I had to read it a couple of times to understand every sense of each word. Various question started running in my mind I became more interested in the poem as well as the writer. I tried to find out more information about the writer and different meanings for the poem. Indirectly, the poem clarify how black people were suffering from the way they were treated and how they were insulted. There is a very good point made throughout the poem and it doesn't matter what color you are. McKay was trying to say if it comes time for death will you not hold your honor until the last minute. Everyone should ask themselves if death comes your way will you fight until the end ? I’m sure the answer for most people is yes. It is better to try to fight for what you believe in and what you feel is honorable to yourself then leave the earth in an unrespectable way. Just like Mckay was trying to portray his feelings about this in his poem. In his poem Mckay said : “ If we must die, let it not be like hogs
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot”
With this I believe he was trying to portray the feeling as if he is under attack. As if whoever was attacking him would only laugh at them and mock them from afar. Not even trying to lend a helping hand as people to try and save their lives. Mckay is saying if we must die then we must die with honor for ourselves and not let anyone see our suffering. The writer Claudius McKay was a black writer who was trying to deliver his emotion and his feeling about racism and prejudice onto papers. He was one of the substantial young writers who came to occurrence in through the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s. In his poems, he tried to declaim his people out of his poem. Trying to tell them to be brave and