Transcript After the Winter By Claude McKay - mholtz

After the Winter
By
Claude McKay
Adam Whittaker
Claude McKay
• Claude McKay was born Sept.
15, 1890, in Jamaica.
• McKay went to the U.S. in
1912, and later New York in
1914.
• Children's Activist, Civil Rights
Activist, Author and a Poet.
• Best known for:
– Home to Harlem (1928)
After the Winter
Some day, when trees have shed their leaves - Personification
And against the morning's white - Snow
The shivering birds beneath the eaves
Have sheltered for the night,
We'll turn our faces southward, love,
Toward the summer isle
Where bamboos spire to shafted grove
And wide-mouthed orchids smile. – Personification Flower
And we will seek the quiet hill
Where towers the cotton tree,
And leaps the laughing crystal rill, - Small Stream
And works the droning bee. – Buzzing bee
And we will build a cottage there
Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade.
After the Winter
• McKay describes birds hiding in the eaves
of someone's house in the winter season.
McKay describes someone walking
around in the forest.
• The poem is about hope because it
becomes winter, and it is a new era. Many
people created a good place to live in
America.
Personification
“Some day, when trees have shed their
leaves” (McKay).
McKay uses personification to tell the reader
that it is fall and the leaves are falling off the
trees.
Personification
• “And wide-mouthed orchids smile.” (McKay).
• – Personification
• McKay used personification here to tell how beautiful
the flowers are by giving it human traits.
Rhyme
• “Some day, when trees have shed their leaves
And against the morning's white
The shivering birds beneath the eaves” (McKay).
• “And we will seek the quiet hill
Where towers the cotton tree,
And leaps the laughing crystal rill,” (McKay).
• “Beside an open glade,
With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
And ferns that never fade.” (McKay).
Rhyme Scheme
• 1 Some day, when trees have shed their leaves
2 And against the morning's white
1 The shivering birds beneath the eaves
3 Have sheltered for the night,
4 We'll turn our faces southward, love,
5 Toward the summer isle
6 Where bamboos spire to shafted grove
5 And wide-mouthed orchids smile.
7 And we will seek the quiet hill
8 Where towers the cotton tree,
7 And leaps the laughing crystal rill,
9 And works the droning bee.
10 And we will build a cottage there
11 Beside an open glade,
12 With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,
11 And ferns that never fade.
Tone
• The tone for After the Winter is a calm,
happy and hopeful tone.
Works Cited
• http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/afterthe-winter/
• http://www.biography.com/people/claudemckay-9392654