Who Is The Speaker Of If We Must Die By Claude Mckay

The speaker of “If we must die” is Claude McKAy. Claude McKay was a part of the harlem renaissance movement which is a group of African Americans who wrote and developed ideas together. McKay like a lot of the writers in the movement wrote about the prejudices their race had to face. Mckay comes off as a brave, noble, and inspiring man to those who read his poems. McKay most likely wrote this because there was a rise in hate crimes, race riots, and overall violence towards the black community. The poem begins with the speaker making it clear that him and his allies are under attack by using words like we and die. Then the poem shows the reader a more emotional side of the allies and how they want to die honorably by using starving dogs to show