"The White City"--Claude McKay Knowing the cultural context of the poem - Claude McKay was a leader of the Harlem Renaissance, a period of awakening of a new African-American consciousness in art in the 1920s - clarifies which of the following ideas:

A. the city the speaker is referring to is New York
B. the poem is a Shakespearean sonnet
C. the city the speaker is referring to is Chicago
D. the closing couplet sums up the ambivalent emotions of the black speaker


Answer: A

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