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America By Claude Mckay

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Thesis: Throughout the poem “America”, Claude McKay uses many poetic devices, such as personification, similes and metaphors, and alliteration, to help explain the overall theme of the oppressive and nationalistic nature of America. Paragraph: Personification is the poetic device that compares not humanistic items or things to humanistic things or traits. In the poem, the author personifies America to help support the major theme. “Although she feeds me bread of bitterness” (McKay, line 1), McKay compares America to a human, using pronouns like “she”, and in other lines, “her”. “Her vigor flows like tides into my blood, / Giving me strength“ (McKay, lines 5-6). These pronouns show how America is like a mother who cares for its citizens and
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