America in Reality
“ Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes is a poem which is similar to Walt Whitman’s “ I hear American Singing”, Whitman is confident about America’s democratic opportunity. However, Hughes is writing from a black man’s perception, thus less optimistic about what America has been or will be. Hughes’s has his poem organized with rhyme, tone, rhetorical questions, and more unified with repeated anaphora.
Connotation is used in the poem which evokes the magnificently patriotic images of America but it also raises questions about these images. “But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in air we breathe ( Hughes, 13-14 ), these lines makes the reader ask the question whether America was a dream …show more content…
The tone he uses, seems to be confessional, as if he is talking from his own experiences. He is pointing out all the imperfections in the ideas of equal opportunity and free will in his poem. Then occasionally he speaks to the reader utterly with lines as, O, yes I say it plain, America never was America to me, ( Hughes,60-62 ). Speaking outspokenly to the reader is an effective way of communicating ideas he has. The words he has used, makes the reader feel for him and hear the idea that America has not been equal to everyone. For some people, it did not live up to its …show more content…
Is this considered to be equal or is that any near to the founding ideas upon which America was founded. This question comes up when Hughes asks , “The free” ( Hughes,43 ).
Obviously, these are all the questions we should ask ourselves today. The minimum wage in this country has stayed same for nine years and the costs of living is rising exponentially. The government manipulates intentionally the common people through the use of patriotic imagery in order to dissuade attention from its own wrongdoings. It is completely understandable to be sick of “ Of dog eat dog, of mighty, crush the weak ( Hughes, 23 ) because in this country racism has been moved behind the closed doors instead of out in the public, and continue to claim that racism has been
“ Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes is a poem which is similar to Walt Whitman’s “ I hear American Singing”, Whitman is confident about America’s democratic opportunity. However, Hughes is writing from a black man’s perception, thus less optimistic about what America has been or will be. Hughes’s has his poem organized with rhyme, tone, rhetorical questions, and more unified with repeated anaphora.
Connotation is used in the poem which evokes the magnificently patriotic images of America but it also raises questions about these images. “But opportunity is real, and life is free, Equality is in air we breathe ( Hughes, 13-14 ), these lines makes the reader ask the question whether America was a dream …show more content…
The tone he uses, seems to be confessional, as if he is talking from his own experiences. He is pointing out all the imperfections in the ideas of equal opportunity and free will in his poem. Then occasionally he speaks to the reader utterly with lines as, O, yes I say it plain, America never was America to me, ( Hughes,60-62 ). Speaking outspokenly to the reader is an effective way of communicating ideas he has. The words he has used, makes the reader feel for him and hear the idea that America has not been equal to everyone. For some people, it did not live up to its …show more content…
Is this considered to be equal or is that any near to the founding ideas upon which America was founded. This question comes up when Hughes asks , “The free” ( Hughes,43 ).
Obviously, these are all the questions we should ask ourselves today. The minimum wage in this country has stayed same for nine years and the costs of living is rising exponentially. The government manipulates intentionally the common people through the use of patriotic imagery in order to dissuade attention from its own wrongdoings. It is completely understandable to be sick of “ Of dog eat dog, of mighty, crush the weak ( Hughes, 23 ) because in this country racism has been moved behind the closed doors instead of out in the public, and continue to claim that racism has been