Langston Hughes 'Poem' I, Too

Langston Hughes in his poem I, Too, expounded on the disappointments of the black man in his poetry. He never surrendered in light of the fact that he imagined an America in which black and white men would eat at the same table and be viewed as equal Americans. The setting of the poem is "all over the place America" that trusted that black men were not Americans or equal to the white men as human creatures. The narration is first individual with the poet as the narrator. Hughes was viewed as the first of the Harlem Renaissance poets. When he composed or talked, the black man listened in light of the fact that what Hughes said was precisely what the black man felt. The poem is told in the current state. The type of the poem is free verse. It is composed in five brief stanzas. The sentences are short and conversational in smoothness, yet the tone is solid.
The main stanza and title of the poem is a reference to the poem by Walt Whitman titled I Hear America …show more content…
He will dare not request that he sit at the table. The ramifications of the word dare is threatening in light of the fact that the black Americans will state themselves as equal sooner or later; therefore, in light of their power, they won't remain for any longer debasement. In fourth stanza; Hughes says that the magnificence of the black man is not only the outward appearance. It is the nature of his character. On the off chance that given the same flexibility and equality, the black man would transcend his circumstances generally as the white man has. In fifth stanza, the poet closes with the driving force of the whole poem: I, too, am an America. What a powerful statement for a black man in the time in which it was composed. Hughes convincingly demonstrates with his superb expression and creativity that it took too many years for the black man to be acknowledged as a real