Claude McKay: Poems

The Tropics of New York

Explain the author's use of fruit, and what fruit represents? And in a paragraph, paraphrase what the poet is really depicting through the ideas of fruits and weeping?

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The fruit represents McKay's childhood, the sights and smells.... the memories. The poet is depicting his longing for the past.... the innocence of childhood.

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The Tropics of New York

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