Essay On If We Must Die Mckay

Evaluation of if we must die by claude Mckay The criteria that if we must die by claude Mckay was evaluated with includes how effective the author was at appealing to his target audience as well as how well he conveyed emotional and thematic expectations of his political beliefs.These criteria were chosen because they most closely fit the This poem is effective at appealing to its target audience at the time of publishing and conveyed the emotional and thematic expectations of his political beliefs. The author is already defeated and as he states “if we must die” which is very telling that he has already accepted defeat however at the same time the author is also contradicting this with things that the reader could still do and have honor where

It very effectively achieves its purpose by using strong words and powerful repetition of meaningful phrases such as repeating the title of the poem if we must die multiple times. This poem focuses mainly on conflict and language. It focuses on language by choice of words as well as repetition of words and the connotation of these chosen words as well as the meaning behind the words that were chosen for instance the fifth line of the poem reads “If we must die, o let us nobly die” this was done for repetition purposes as well as to show how the chosen words meet the thematic expectations of the target audience of young black people and how the words engage the audience and how much the words would appeal to its audience. the conflict in the story which is between the oppressed and the oppressors. from the oppressors point of view, the conflict effectively appeals to its target audience as almost a direct call to action to “fight back” even ending the story with theses words which would be used to empower the black community at the time of

The emotional appeal is appealing to the emotions of death and oppression, which greatly increases the effectiveness of the meaning of the poem. Conflict is also used to engage the audience with the repeated conflict between us vs them. The depth this poem has achieved is vast with inflammatory language such as “pressed to the wall dying but fighting back” is the ending verse of the poem giving us great insight and leaving the reader with a scarily intense image in their head. This exacerbating insight is forced on to the reader with the intense conflict between the oppressor and the oppressed giving great depth as well as meaning to the poem. There is not much range to the poem emotionally speaking it is all one mood and that is aggressive the entire poem is aggressive in manner it's never calm its always aggressive. That was the intent of the author.This does not take away from the poem, it actually helps to convey the meaning of the poetry as a whole and connect with the audience. This tone the author takes is also persuasive with logic and reason where the author goes about describing how there is honor in fighting back even while being