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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.
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‘If We Must Die’ by Claude McKay is a rousing poem addressed to the black community advocating for courage and the will to fight back against oppression. The poem begins with the speaker addressing his “kinsmen,” telling them they need to avoid the fate of hogs.
A Shakespearean sonnet that calls for oppressed people to fight bravely against their oppressors, even if they die. Learn about the poem's themes, symbols, poetic devices, context, and more from LitCharts.
"If We Must Die" is a poem by Jamaican-American writer Claude McKay (1890–1948) published in the July 1919 issue of The Liberator magazine. McKay wrote the poem in response to mob attacks by white Americans upon African-American communities during the Red Summer.
A sonnet inspired by the Red Summer of 1919, when white supremacists attacked African Americans. The poem is a call for Black Americans to fight back and die nobly, rather than accept their fate as pigs or dogs.
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 accursed lot. If we must die—oh, let us nobly die, So that our precious blood may not be shed. In vain; then even the monsters we defy.
A poem that calls for resistance against oppression and violence, written by a Jamaican poet in response to the "Red Summer" of 1919 in America. The poem uses an English sonnet form as a defiant act of claiming dignity and honor.
