In the poem “If We Must Die”, Claude McKay expresses how he and the people fighting along with him must fight no matter what so they can die with respect. Basically they are fighting a losing battle, but they are going to die prideful because they will not quit. The tone throughout the paper is belligerent, yet encouraging because of the aggressive nature expressed by hostile figurative language yet it is still to encourage the group.
The speaker is most likely the leader of the fighting group. You can tell the narrator is the leader because he is basically giving a war cry. He used phrases such as “if we must die, let it not be like hogs” implying there is a group by emphasizing we. Therefore audience would be there soldiers in the fight or
The speaker is most likely the leader of the fighting group. You can tell the narrator is the leader because he is basically giving a war cry. He used phrases such as “if we must die, let it not be like hogs” implying there is a group by emphasizing we. Therefore audience would be there soldiers in the fight or