If We Must Die

Claude McKay * Track #78 On Emily Dickinson

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Album Emily Dickinson

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Claude McKay

2015

If We Must Die by Claude McKay

Release Date

Wed Jan 01 1919

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Claude McKay

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A Shakespearean sonnet and one of the signature poems of Harlem Renaissance poet Claude McKay.

A-3 minute discussion of this poem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zrfu3bBIU0g

A letter Claude McKay wrote to Richard Wright in part explaining this poem:

If We Must Die Annotated

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 deathblow!
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!

If We Must Die Q&A

When did Claude McKay release If We Must Die?

Claude McKay released If We Must Die on Wed Jan 01 1919.

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