After the winter By Claude McKay Presented By Gage Wilkins

Biography McKay was born in Jamaica in September 15, 1889 . He was educated by his brother his brother also wrote poems to and other thing s like novels. In 1912 he Published a book of a verse called Jamaica (Gardner). The same year he traveled to America to attend Tuskegee Institute in Alabama.

After The Winter The structure Rhyme Scheme 17 lines 4 stanzas By Claude McKay Someday, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning’s white 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 the shafted grove And wide-mouthed orchids smile.   And we will seek the quiet hill Where towers the cotton tree, And leaps the laughing crystal rill, And works the droning bee. And we will build a cottage there Beside an open glade, With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near, And ferns that never fade.

Speaker After The Winter Speaker  By Claude McKay Someday, when trees have shed their leaves And against the morning’s white 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 the shafted grove And wide-mouthed orchid’s smile.   And we will seek the quiet hill Where towers the cotton tree, And leaps the laughing crystal rill, And works the droning bee. And we will build a cottage there Beside an open glade, With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near, And ferns that never fade. Speaker  The speaker is a child that likes the winter and does not want it to go away.

poetic/literary element After The Winter By Claude McKay Someday, when trees have shed their leaves A And against the morning’s white B The shivering birds beneath the eaves A Have sheltered for the night, B We’ll turn our faces southward, love, C Toward the summer isle D Where bamboos spire the shafted grove C And wide-mouthed orchids smile. D   And we will seek the quiet hill E Where towers the cotton tree, F And leaps the laughing crystal rill, E And works the droning bee. F And we will build a cottage there G Beside an open glade, H With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near, G And ferns that never fade. H Literary elements End rhyme

Imagery Where Bamboos spire the shafted grove and wide-mouth orchids smile. Someday when trees have shed there leaves and against the morning's white the shivering birds beneath the eaves have sheltered for the night

Imagery And we will build a cottage there Beside an open glade, With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,

Literal meaning The poem is talking about how it was winter and it’s turning spring and when it turns spring the leaves fall off the tree and the grow new leaves again.

Figurative meaning The figurative meaning

Authors meaning The meaning for the authors meaning for the poem is to show how when winter is over and it begins to be spring and how everything is re growing.

Authors purpose The authors purpose is to teach people about how winter changes to spring.

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