After the Winter By Claude McKay

1. After the WinterByClaude McKay Adam Whittaker

2. 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)

3. After the Winter Some day, when trees have shed their leaves - PersonificationAnd against the morning's white - SnowThe shivering birds beneath the eavesHave sheltered for the night, We'll turn our faces southward, love,Toward the summer isleWhere bamboos spire to shafted groveAnd wide-mouthed orchids smile. – Personification FlowerAnd we will seek the quiet hillWhere towers the cotton tree,And leaps the laughing crystal rill, - Small StreamAnd works the droning bee. – Buzzing beeAnd we will build a cottage thereBeside an open glade,With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,And ferns that never fade.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Personification • “And wide-mouthed orchids smile.” (McKay). • – Personification • McKay used personification here to tell how beautiful the flowers are by giving it human traits.

7. Rhyme • “Some day, when trees have shed their leavesAnd against the morning's whiteThe shivering birds beneath the eaves” (McKay). • “And we will seek the quiet hillWhere 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).

8. Rhyme Scheme • 1 Some day, when trees have shed their leaves2 And against the morning's white 1 The shivering birds beneath the eaves3 Have sheltered for the night, 4 We'll turn our faces southward, love,5 Toward the summer isle6 Where bamboos spire to shafted grove5 And wide-mouthed orchids smile. 7 And we will seek the quiet hill8 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 there11 Beside an open glade,12 With black-ribbed blue-bells blowing near,11 And ferns that never fade.

9. Tone • The tone for After the Winter is a calm, happy and hopeful tone.

10. Works Cited • http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/after-the-winter/ • http://www.biography.com/people/claude-mckay-9392654