Analysis Of If We Must Die By Claude Mckay

What’s the meaning of life? Would people die meaninglessly or die in honor? During the 1920s, the Harlem Renaissance, was created for African American to express themselves as free people. At that period of time, without showing any respect from the white, African American was still treated unequally. But they will want the whites to acknowledge them, so they express themselves by showing what they can do such as, music, film, and literature. Through the use of key phrases and metaphor, in the poem ¨If We Must Die” by Claude McKay, the author shows that African American people wanted to show pride for at least trying to express themselves to be equal because if they must die, their lives should show the whites that they didn´t die meaninglessly, they wanted the whites to show some respect for other African American in the future for the honor.

In the poem ¨ If We Must Die” by Claude McKay, the author uses key phrases to show that African American wanted respect and honor from the whites because if they were to die, they want so shows what their lives can do, so the whites people can honor them for trying. African American people wanted to gain respect from the white by doing film, art, etc. In doing so, it shows that African American’s lives are not worthless. In the poem, it stated that, “Pressed to the wall, dying, but
During the history of African American, they were slave treated as tool, and that has to carried to the next generation repeatedly. For example, the author stated that, “Hunted and penned in a inglorious spot.” Even though slavery was abolished, African American people is still being treated unequally, during Harlem