Instead of the North Star bringing these people to freedom and hope, the birds are the sign of hope and a new world in this scenario. The people are following the birds to the north and their seems to be hope, because the people have packed up their stuff, left their homes and are traveling to the north.

"If We Must Die" by Claude McKay qualifies as a sonnet because of 5 important reasons, the first is that it has a change in idea in it. After line 8, it changes ideas by saying O Kinsmen! The second is that it has 14 lines. The third is the rhyme scheme. The fourth is that it has about 10 syllables in each line. The fifth is the 7 rhyming couplets that only rhyme at the last two lines.

I chose this poem because the way he spoke interested me, "Lawdy-mercy! I's frustrated!" He speaks with such a southern taste even though he lives in New York. He also seemed non-content with his life as in many of his other poems which he seems that equality doesn't spread to him.

I chose this poem because it although was written after the time of slavery, Langston Hughes still thinks that America is not completely fee, America is not America to him, there is no equality for him, this poem expresses his feelings of America

Let America be America by Langston Hughes s very opposite to Claude McKay's To One coming north. This is because McKay says such good things about the north and all this equality, but Hughes disagrees, he says that America is a free place but not to him, he has no equality there, freedom does not spread to him. Their points of view are very different.

I liked this poem (Life Is Fine) because it showed what he thought (Langston Hughes) of life when he lived in America. What he thought of Emotions and death and liiving.