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    Claude McKay expresses mixed feelings about America in this poem. While America provides opportunities that give him strength, it also feeds him bitterness and threatens his life. However, McKay stands confidently within America, gazing into an uncertain future. He acknowledges that America's might and grandeur will one day fade away just as priceless treasures sink into the sand with the touch of time.

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    Claude McKay expresses mixed feelings about America in this poem. While America provides opportunities that give him strength, it also feeds him bitterness and threatens his life. However, McKay stands confidently within America, gazing into an uncertain future. He acknowledges that America's might and grandeur will one day fade away just as priceless treasures sink into the sand with the touch of time.

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    America by Claude McKay : The Poetry Foundation

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    Home > Poems & Poets > America

    America
    BY CLAUDE MCKAY

    Although she feeds me bread of bitterness,


    And sinks into my throat her tiger's tooth,
    Stealing my breath of life, I will confess
    I love this cultured hell that tests my youth.
    Her vigor flows like tides into my blood,
    Giving me strength erect against her hate,
    Her bigness sweeps my being like a flood.
    Yet, as a rebel fronts a king in state,
    I stand within her walls with not a shred
    Of terror, malice, not a word of jeer.
    Darkly I gaze into the days ahead,
    And see her might and granite wonders there,
    Beneath the touch of Time's unerring hand,
    Like priceless treasures sinking in the sand.

    Claude McKay, "America" from Liberator (December 1921). Courtesy of the Literary Representative for the Works of Claude McKay, Schombourg Center for
    Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tildeen Foundations.
    Source: Liberator (The Library of America, 1921)

    http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/173957

    1/4/2012

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