Let America Be America Again By Langston Hughes: Poem Analysis

From the beginning of time, inequality has been a necessity in the differentiation of one person from another. Whether in the Indian Hindu Caste System thousands of years ago or the segregation of blacks and whites in America 50 years ago; inequality has always separated classes. Langston Hughes, an African American poet front the Harlem Renaissance writes mostly about racial inequality in the poem “Let America Be America Again.” This work is about how all immigrants who come to America in pursuit of the American Dream quickly realize that the actions necessary to achieve their dreams and liberate themselves from the inequality that is natives and immigrants are far more demanding than the chains that previously bound them in other countries. Slightly fewer than 100 years ago, the Harlem Renaissance was a time of major income inequality between classes and sexes. Though, for the most part, racial …show more content…
They may allow us temporarily to beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change. And this fact is only threatening to those women who still define the master 's house as their only source of support.” (Lorde) We must reform ourselves and Langston Hughes makes that point in his fictional poem in the following quote from Hughes:
“We must take back our land again,
America!
O, yes I say it plain,
America never was America to me, and yet I swear this oath—
America will be!
Out of the rack and ruin of our gangster death,
The rape and rot of graft,
And stealth, and lies,
We, the people must redeem
The land, the mines, the plants, the rivers.
The mountains and the endless plain—
All, all the stretch of these great green states—
And make America