One of the poets I chose for the Oral Presentation was Claude McKay and I seriously dislike the majority of the poems in the book I choose. The majority of his poems are more like songs than actual poems and are lacking in concrete language. EVERY SINGLE ONE of these poems has almost exactly the same rhyme scheme too and it seems like nearly all his poetry is about the same or a similar topic. There was very little variation from poem to poem and it made the book incredibly annoying to read. Even his poems that actually had concrete language weren't very good and were still mostly abstraction. Usually I can enjoy just about any poem, even those that I don't understand, because the concrete language gives it imagery and substance, but these poems... Check it out: "In de evenin' we went walkin' / An' de sweet sound of his voice / as we laughed or kept a-talkin'".. The entire poem is like that, and it spans 3 pages of the book. The language alone makes it almost impossible to derive any meaning out of them. I got absolutely nothing from the majority of these "poems".