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"Outcast" by Claude Mckay

JA

Jennifer Afamefune

Transcript

Our Interpretation

  • Persona is McKay
  • felt secluded and alienated in America
  • Poem title sums up the whole poem
  • McKay is the outcast

"Outcast"

For the dim regions whence my fathers came

My spirit, bondaged by the body, longs.

Words felt, but never heard, my lips would frame;

My soul would sing forgotten jungle songs.

I would go back to darkness and to peace,

But the great western world holds me in fee,

And I may never hope for full release

While to its alien gods I bend my knee.

Something in me is lost, forever lost,

Some vital thing has gone out of my heart,

And I must walk the way of life a ghost

Among the sons of earth, a thing apart;

For I was born, far from my native clime,

Under the white man's menace, out of time.

-Claude Mckay

Synecdoche:A figure of speech in which a part of something is used to represent a whole or vice versa

Synecdoche and Diction

Diction: The choice of words in a literary piece, with regards to clearness, correctness, and effectiveness.

In the Poem

"Outcast" Paraphrased

For the simple places where my ancestors came from

Although I am here in America I long to go back to Africa.

I would say words felt, but never heard before.

I would sing forgotten African songs.

I would go back to simplicity and to peace,

But America keeps me from leaving

And I may never hope to leave this place both body and soul

While I obey white people

I feel like I'm missing something, never to be obtained again forever

Something important has left me,

And I must go through life like a visitor

Among the real natives of this land, an outcast;

I was born, far from Africa,

Under the white man's constraint, in a different time.

Claude Mckay: The Renaissance Man

  • Jamaican- American born in 1889
  • Came to America for college education
  • Studied Agriculture at Kansas State University
  • Poet and writer during the Harlem Renaissance
  • Wanted to fit in and belong, but experienced racism

"Outcast" by Claude Mckay

A Presentation by Jennifer Afamefune and E-mai Dunbar

  • "Fathers" replaces ancestors
  • "My soul" and "my spirit" represent the narrator
  • "Western world" refers to America
  • Creates more imagery for the readers
  • Highlights important aspects
  • Diction is formal
  • tone is sad, longing
  • Helps audience more about what narrator feels
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