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Personification In America By Claude Mckay

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America has this love/hate relationship with almost everybody. People see America differently, some people see it as this wonderful place called home, others see it as this place of torture. The poem “America” is about the life immigrants had in America, and how sometimes it was not so good for them but at other times it felt like home. In this poem, Claude Mckay uses personification, diction, and the sonnet form to develop the idea that the relationship immigrants have with America is often a love/hate relationship. Mckay uses personification in the poem to show the life in America for Immigrants. He gives human like characteristics to an mood in the story. He uses personification to show that America has its faults but it also has its beauty,
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