Describe in detail at least two (2) main themes that you see in poetry written during this period, referencing specific lines in each of the poems. In Claude McKay's "If We Must Die", the main theme is death, but not how you are going to die, but how you are going to deal with death in certain ways. We get the idea that the speaker of “If We Must Die” is not thinking about death in a theoretical sense; he actually faces it. It's not about whether he will die or what will happen when he dies, but rather how he will face death. “Pressed against the wall, dying, but fighting back!” » and “although we are greatly outnumbered, let us be courageous, and for their thousand blows, deliver a mortal blow!” show how they will fight back before death comes as a sign of influence. Also in Langston Hughes' "Jazz Band in a Parisian Caberet", the main theme is that he extols the universal appeal of jazz in conveying ideas of national unity. Langston says, “Play that thing, Jazz Band!” Play it for the lords and ladies, for the whores and the gigolos…” he talks about everyone in the unit as he plays them music and sings them jazz4. Write your own poem that expresses these identified Harlem themes