THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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animals.
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monsters.
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defenders.
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murderers.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Grappling with death and white supremacist assaults on Black life and on Black peoples’ autonomies, McKay’s “If We Must Die” is a clarion call to protest and unity. He insists that If we must die, then we will establish the terms of our deaths.
Detailed explanation-2: -Lines 1 through 4 establish that the speaker and his allies are under attack. The speaker urges his allies not to give up without a fight. The next four lines draw on the emotions of the allies to die honorably.
Detailed explanation-3: -we must meet the common foe! The speaker uses that old-fashioned “O” again. (Kind of starting to sound like Shakespeare, right?) The speaker’s “kinsmen” are his buddies; they are like family to the speaker. This may be because they are fighting against the same “foe, ” or enemy.