Outcast
by Claude McKay
For the dim regions whence my fathers came
My spiri...
English, 10.03.2020 01:32 jhonnysoriano9053
Outcast
by Claude McKay
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.
"Outcast." Claude McKay, 1922.
Poets often write about their own experiences and personal beliefs. What inference can the reader make about Claude McKay from reading his poem "Outcast"?
A. McKay plans to leave America and go back to Jamaica.
B. McKay discourages other Africans from moving to America.
C. McKay feels triumphant because he has tamed Western society.
D. McKay struggles with reconciling his African ancestry with the modern Western world.
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