Claude McKay: If We Must Die (1919)

1. McKay reading "If We Must Die" himself: media.sas.upenn.edu/afilreis/McKay-Claude_If-We-Must-Die.mp3
2. poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15250
3. english.illinois.edu/maps/poets/m_r/mckay/mustdie.htm
4. public.wsu.edu/~brians/world_civ/worldcivreader/world_civ_reader_2/mckay.html
5. Video discussion of "If We Must Die ": class.coursera.org/modernpoetry-002/lecture/32

Read complete analysis from the above links.

While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Making their mock at our accursed lot.