Critical Analysis Of I Too, By Langston Hughes

In the poem I too by Langston Hughes you have the author who is talking about the other side of America that we do not know about and how they treat the “Darker Culture”. With that being said he talks about how they send him to eat in the kitchen when the company come over but he is not bother by that because he know that deep inside that he is better than that. When they send him to the kitchen he proceeds to say that he laugh at it and smiles. It almost like he know that better day are coming. He starts the first Stanza off by saying, “I too sing America. Which gives you the ideal that he is about to tell you his side of the story and how he really see America through his eyes. It almost like he about to break it down to you how America is for his race. In the next stanza he said, …show more content…
What I get from this stanza is that he is saying that he is not really bothered by them sending him to the kitchen when company arrives. It almost like he saying me being sent to the kitchen does not affect me because my appetite is still going to be the same whether I’m in the kitchen or sitting at the dining room table with the company when they come over. You can almost like picture him and the rest of servants in the kitchen laughing and enjoying their wonderful meal inside of the kitchen. It like they know that better times are coming real soon. The next lines states, “tomorrow I will be at the table when company comes”. The Author does not mean literally that tomorrow he will be not in the kitchen, he probably referring to the future when black and white will become equal. He in reality just looking towards the future when thing are a whole lot better, and everyone around him is equal. He then said that nobody will dare say to me eat in the kitchen then. Like he knows when the world is equal that nobody will every again say that he is force to eat in the kitchen because times will be totally