 | Torrance Stephens - 2003 - 142 str.
...teacher had written about some race riot in the first decade of the century. It was by Claude McKay. If we must die - let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs. Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die—oh... | |
 | Manning Marable - 2003 - 708 str.
...outraged by these racial atrocities, and expressed his militancy in poetry and essays. "If We Must Die" If we must die — let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die... | |
 | Marshall Cavendish Corporation - 2002 - 150 str.
...brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back! Commentary A Jamaican-born American poet and novelist, Claude McKay emerged as a major figure in the... | |
 | Christopher Beach - 2003 - 236 str.
...our accursed lot." The poem's speaker vows to avenge the brutality of the attacks on black citizens: "Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack / Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back." Never before had the social antagonism between the races been expressed so directly in poetic form.... | |
 | Dorothy E. Mosby - 2003 - 264 str.
...brave, And for their thousand blows deal one deathblow! What though before us lies the open grave? Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack, Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!^ 6. McKay, "If We Must Die," 493-94. Instead of addressing a siege situation, Campbell portrays a situation... | |
 | Kevin Boyle - 2004 - 450 str.
...captured the same sentiment in a verse that swept through black communities like a sudden summer storm. "If we must die, let it not be like hogs / Hunted.../ Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!" The black press personalized the new militancy with a telling name. "The NEW NEGRO . . . does not fear... | |
 | Michael B. Lentakis - 2005 - 447 str.
...light on this terrible period of the Red Terror. NELO BERNARDINI, A BRAVE ITALIAN IF WE MUST DIE... If we must die, let it not be like hogs, Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot. While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die,... | |
 | Raymond Wolters - 2002 - 588 str.
..."the Negro people unanimously hailed me as a poet" when he wrote a famous sonnet, "If We Must Die." If we must die — let it not be like hogs. Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accused lot. If we must die —... | |
 | David Caplan - 2006 - 180 str.
...most famous poems ever written." Pointedly Brooks concluded her letter by quoting the poem in full: If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die,... | |
 | Elizabeth Sirimarco - 2005 - 162 str.
...ideals inspired younger poets, including Langston Hughes, to follow in his footsteps. IF WE MUST DIE If we must die — let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die... | |
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If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursed lot. If we must die... 
