America-Claude McKayAmerica --Claude McKay Although she feeds me bread of bitterness, And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth, Stealing my breath of life, I will confess I love this cultured hell that tests my youth! Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect ...
‘America‘ by Claude McKay is written in a sonnet form, measuring 14 lines with an ABABABABABABCCrhyme scheme. The poet is, according to thesonnet structure, split into threequatrainsand a finalrhyming couplet. Upon the 8th line, the poem has aVolta, with a slight change in direction app...
Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, Giving me strength erect against her hate. Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood. Yet as a rebel fronts a king in state, I stand within her walls with not a shred Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer. Darkly I gaze into the days ah...
CLAUDE McKAY (1889-1948) was a leading literary figure in the Harlem renaissance, a popular poet and the author of Black America's first bestselling novel, Home to Harlem. And, for decades after the Second World War, it was widely believed that Winston Churchill had quoted McKay's most ...