An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family life, love, hate, work, and social life. The reader obtains a strong sense of black life through his colorful and emotional poetry.
. - Summary by Denise Ray
Chapters
1 Introduction 14 min 2 Author's Word 5 min 3 The Easter Flower 1 min 4 To One Coming North 1 min 5 America 1 min 6 Alfonso, Dressing to Wait at Table 1 min 7 The Tropics in New York 1 min 8 Flame Heart 2 min 9 Home Thoughts 1 min 10 On Broadway 1 min 11 The Barrier 1 min 12 Adolescence 1 min 13 Homing Swallows 1 min 14 The City's Love 1 min 15 North and South 2 min 16 Wild May 1 min 17 The Plateau 1 min 18 After the Winter 1 min 19 The Wild Goat 1 min 20 Harlem Shadows 2 min 21 The White City 1 min 22 The Spanish Needle 1 min 23 My Mother 2 min 24 In Bondage 1 min 25 December 1919 1 min 26 Heritage 1 min 27 When I Have Passed Away 1 min 28 Enslaved 1 min 29 I Shall Return 1 min 30 Morning Joy 2 min 31 Africa 1 min 32 On a Primitive Canoe 1 min 33 Winter in the Country 2 min 34 To Winter 1 min 35 Spring in New Hampshire 1 min 36 On the Road 1 min 37 The Harlem Dancer 1 min 38 Dawn in New York 1 min 39 The Tired Worker 2 min 40 Outcast 1 min 41 I know My Soul 1 min 42 Birds of Prey 1 min 43 The Castaways 1 min 44 Exhortation: Summer, 1919 3 min 45 The Lynching 1 min 46 Baptism 1 min 47 If We Must Die 1 min 48 Subway Wind 1 min 49 The Night Fire 1 min 50 Poetry 1 min 51 To A Poet 1 min 52 A Prayer 1 min 53 When Dawn Comes to the City 3 min 54 O Word I Love to Sing 1 min 55 Absence 1 min 56 Summer Morn in New Hampshire 1 min 57 Rest in Peace 1 min 58 A Red Flower 2 min 59 Courage 1 min 60 To O.E.A 2 min 61 Romance 2 min 62 Flower of Love 2 min 63 The Snow Fairy 2 min 64 La Paloma in London 1 min 65 A Memory of June 2 min 66 Flirtation 1 min 67 Tormented 1 min 68 Polarity 1 min 69 One Year After 2 min 70 French Leave 2 min 71 Jasmines 1 min 72 Commemoration 1 min 73 Memorial 2 min 74 Thirst 1 min 75 Futility 1 min 76 Through Agony 2 min
