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Claude McKay was a Jamaican-American poet who lived from 1889 to 1948 and was a key figure in the Harlem Renaissance. He experienced racism firsthand in both Jamaica and the United States. In his poems, McKay used symbolic language and imagery to portray the discrimination faced by African Americans and his negative views of white racism. Some of the symbols he employed included comparing racist white Americans to mad, hungry dogs and using the terms "heaven" to describe Harlem and "fiendish glee" to depict

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