America by Claude McKay
America by Claude McKay

America

Claude McKay * Track #80 On Emily Dickinson

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America by Claude McKay

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“America” by Claude McKay is a traditional English rhyming sonnet, consisting of three quatrains and a couplet written in iambic pentameter. It was first published in the literary journal Liberator in 1921. The central theme of the poem is the Jamaican-American poet’s simultaneous awe, hatred, and b...

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America Annotated

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 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 ahead,
And see her might and granite wonders there,
Beneath the touch of Time's unerring hand,
Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

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