If We Must Die

This was an interesting sonnet. Although protest or call-to-action poetry has been done before this one seems to have a defining characteristic that sets it apart from the rest. What i think that may be is the author's blunt writing, telling his audience to fight even when death is imminent instead of implying it through the use of literary devices or other things of the sort. There's no big allusion, there's no connection made between this work and another, it just simply states that in order to die a noble death one must give it his all even when the odds are against his favor.