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"My City" by James Weldon Johnson - 6 views

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Poetry Sonnet James Weldon Johnson Harlem

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  • Kevin Z on 09 Jan 14
     
    This poem is James talking about him leaving his house and dying. He deeply misses everything in Manhattan and remembers everything. He misses the crowds, trees, etc and wonder if he will ever go back and what he will miss most deeply is his city.
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  • Kayla M on 09 Jan 14
     
    We think this poem is about the things that the authour will miss after he dies or hes trying to figure out what hes going to miss most about his city. Which in the end is him simpliying not being able to live and enoy it anymore.
  • Samuel F on 09 Jan 14
     
    We think this poem is about how much he loves his city New York. Also that he doesn't want to die because he doesn't loose his city.
  • Darren D on 09 Jan 14
     
    This poem is about leaving some where were you thought you wanted to leave but really wanted to go back. He misses everything about manhattan`s features that make it great. That if he died right there, he wold never see the city again.
  • Benjamin B on 09 Jan 14
     
    I think this poem is about him remebering and thinking about all of the things he is going to miss and leave behind, after he dies. He talks about things in the city that he is going to miss like the flowers and birds.
  • Charles W on 09 Jan 14
     
    I think this poem by James Johnson is about him being nostalgic to never behold his city, he is a dying man and he wants to be and experience his home again, but he cannot because when he dies he will never have the chance to be there for it again.
  • Katelyn M on 09 Jan 14
     
    The poem "My City" by James Weldon Johnson is about the shame of dying without making a difference on the city. You can see this in the second couplet when Johnson asks, "What to me then will be the keenest loss/When this bright world blurs on my fading sight?" He answers this in the last couplet with "To be dead, and never again behold my city." Comment by Katelyn M., Molly J., and Taliah M.
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