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What is a theme of the poem? “I Shall Return”

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This poem by Claude Mckay is about sadness, guilt, and the need to be accepted. Mckay wrote this poem to express his anguish and desire to return to Jamaica. McKay utilizes a lot of repetition in keeping with the Harlem Renaissance movement's style.

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