Learning Task 6: Read the poem carefully. Then, answer the questions that
follow. Do this in your notebook
If We Must Die
Hy Claude McKay (1889-1948)
If we must die, let it not be like hops
Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,
While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,
Malding their mock at our accursed lot
If we must die, o let us nobly die,
So that our precious blood may not be shed
In vain; then even the monsters we dely
Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!
0 kinsmen! we must meet the common foc!
Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,
And for their thousand blows deal one death blow!
What though before us lies the open grave?
Like men we'll face the murderous, cowardly pack,
Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting backt
Questions:
HAECURED
1. What do the first four les establis
2. What message does the persons forward to his all
3. How does the persona describe his enemies?
4. According to the poet, how can one die nobly?
5. Using the Venn diagram below, compare and contrast the specific
messages and/or values presented in the poem and in the anide in
Learning Task 5
It We Must Die
Health workers speak
to UNICEF about their
struggles