I Too By Wangston Huga Analysis

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A country or state succeeds when everybody works to accomplish it. Therefore, all citizens should be allowed to contribute, so every kind of social exclusion or discrimination must be avoided. Walt Whitman (1819-1892) and Langston Hughes (1902-1967) emphasized the importance of union among American citizens. Both Whitman’s “One Song, America, Before I Go” and Hughes’ “I, Too” point out the significance of the union among Americans despite the differences existent. Even though both authors highlighted the importance of the union for the success of the nation, the authors approach the topic differently. While Whitman focuses on the importance of the Union for the nation, Hughes focuses on the importance of union in order to allow everybody to …show more content…
In the “I, Too” the author points out that everyone in the society must be free to express their feelings and thoughts because it is not possible to predict how productive someone can be; perhaps, they can do remarkable things if they were allowed to. The speaker might be a black slave due to the description given on the first verse of the second stanza “I am the darker brother”, and his tone is bright, optimistic, cheerful and confident. In addition, the poem seems to reflect the end of oppression period because the speaker emphasizes the fact that the reality will change very soon, so it is logical to say that the oppression was expected to end soon. Due to the fact that Langston Hughes (1902-1967), who is the author of the poem “I, Too”, is an African American poet, he might be influenced to write about the perspective of a black person. The poem “I, Too” contains eighteen lines and five stanzas, but it does not have rhyme and meter. The language used in the poem is modern, and the author used metaphor on some verses to express feeling of the speaker; for example, “Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table” which may be referring to the possibility of being free to express himself without

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