Claude McKay
1849 - 1948
Reading Response to The Lynching
This poem reflects regionalism coming from the times of Jim Crow laws when it was legal to lynch a man in broad daylight. Line 10 describing the how the charred remains are swinging from a tree limb describes the horrific scene of what people would be subjected to seeing during this time period of history.
Lines 11 - 14 describe how women look at the body swaying in the sun and how they do not feel any remorse or sorrow for what has happened to the individual who once lived and now lynched to death for all to see. And how there are children dancing around this scene unaware of how horrible the scene really is, and looking at it with fiendish glee.
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