BLOG #4 - Claude McKay poetry

Harlem Renaissance
Reading Response Blog #4 Due Thursday, December 1st

Read the following poems while also considering the excerpt from Claude McKay’s A Long Way From Home packet pgg. 157-172.
Post your responses of literary analysis on the web blog in paragraph form. Attempt to analyze the poem for its art versus its assumed propagandist components.
Please make line citations when referring to the poems.

Poems by Claude McKay:
“Baptism”-Taytra Todd
“The White House” - Jes Stiner
“The Negro’s Friend” - Robbie Shiver
“On a Primitive Canoe” - Passion Rutledge
“The Tropics in New York” - Cyrus Roepers
“When Dawn Comes to the City” - Ajay Premkumar
“The Desolate City” - Jake Levin & Mona Dooley
“The Harlem Dancer”- Martha Diamond
“Saint Isaac’s Church, Petrograd” - Olivia Dewey
“Barcelona”- Maria Bissell

How does your poem compare to the others in this group in its form?
When and where was your poem published?

Comment on the following appropriate poetic components of your poem in paragraph form:
Imagery
Syntax
Figurative Language (metaphor, simile, etc.)
Sound
Diction
Speaker and Tone
Rhythm