Compare And Contrast I Hear America Singing And Langston Hughes

Was America A Dream For Everyone? Was America a dream for everyone? In two poems, “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes and “ I Hear America Singing” by Walt Whitman, both describe two completely different worlds. Langston Hughes’ poem makes America seem like a nightmare that people have to survive in. Walt Whitman took a completely different bias by describing America as the perfect home where everyone wants to live. Both writers showed entirely different biases about America, so the real question is… was America truly a dream for everyone? America was not a dream for everyone. “Let America Be America Again” showed the readers a negative bias of America. Langston Hughes was trying to open everyone’s eyes to show them how America should be. Langston Hughes told the readers that there was a time when America was good before it turned to sick and twisted ways that poisoned America one state at a time, until America was infected with the disease of injustice everywhere in every crack and crevice. “I am the poor white, fooled and pushed …show more content…
“I Hear America Singing” showed the reader a positive bias of America. Walt Whitman makes America seem like a wonderful dream that no one ever wakes up from. Walt Whitman makes America sound perfect like there is an endless supply of happiness pulsing from the ground that spreads into every state filling everyone’s souls with complete serenity. “The delicious singing of the mother, or of the young wife at work, or of the girl sewing or washing, each singing what belongs to him or her and to none else, the day what belongs to the day- at night the party of the young fellows, robust, friendly,singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs.” This quote of the last four lines of the poem explains that there are no problems and that justice is given to every person. These people described in the poem seem to not want anything to change. America is a dream for every person that