The Poem 'America' By Claude Mckay
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The poem "America" Claude McKay is a piece of work that minorities, immigrants and lower socioeconomic groups can appreciate. This is a story about America being a woman maybe a mother that occasionally loses her temper. This is a critique that is layered and complicated. It is a love hate relationship. The poem seems to use a assonance at the end of each line that connects to the next line after. This builds tension and creates an interesting temp. In the opening lines of the poems were are introduced to who the poem is about. Claude goes right into his feelings toward his mother, "Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,/And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,/Stealing my breath of life, I will confess"(1-3).
The poem "America" Claude McKay is a piece of work that minorities, immigrants and lower socioeconomic groups can appreciate. This is a story about America being a woman maybe a mother that occasionally loses her temper. This is a critique that is layered and complicated. It is a love hate relationship. The poem seems to use a assonance at the end of each line that connects to the next line after. This builds tension and creates an interesting temp. In the opening lines of the poems were are introduced to who the poem is about. Claude goes right into his feelings toward his mother, "Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,/And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,/Stealing my breath of life, I will confess"(1-3).