Read “If We Must Die”

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44694/if-we-must-die

Write a 150 word analysis that the following question:

• According to the speaker, how should a person face death? Explain your answer in detail.  Cite evidence from this text, and other literature, art, or history in your answer 

Question two

Read the poem:

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poem/let-america-be-america-again

Write a 250 word analysis that addresses all of the following questions:

1. What is the author saying about the American Dream?
2. What type of Americans are being described in the poem?
3. Whose voices are expressed in this poem? [people who are oppressed)
4. Why does the author state, “ America was never America to me?”
5. How does America fail some if any of its people?
6. What sense of or type of feeling  (mood) is expressed in the poem or particular stanzas?
7. What perspective does the poem mostly focus on in terms of equality? (Targeted Audience)
8. Who is left out of the poem in terms of marginalized or oppressed groups? (Who did the author not mention?)