CRITIQUE:
This poem by Claude McKay is basically about slavery and how many blacks will die in a very embarrasing and degrading manner. The setting of this poem will be during the slavery era and the event taking place will be when the slave owners will send dogs after every slave that ran away and when the dog finds the slave, it may just kill the slave by hurting them badly. This poem will be a critique because it is an analysis of what is going on ans it stated in details. The rhyme scheme for this poem will be ABABCDCDEFEFGG. The one literay device used in this poem will end ryhme where the end words have the same sound. Another one will be narrative poetry because the author is telling a story throught this poem.Also the tone of this peom will be defensive because the poem is bout how they will never let the way the die be an embarrasment and that they will keep fighting back.
- ADJOA GHANSAH
If We Must Die
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.
If we must die, O let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we defy
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!
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