Review Of Langston Hughes 'Poem Let America Be America Again'

The poem “Let America Be America Again” by Langston Hughes is about the struggles and issues that people in America is having and Hughes wants to inform the reality of America. During the mid-early 1900s, there were many global issues that were happening that affected many people in America, like for instance; there are power struggles, racism, wars, women’s rights, and immigration. In the poem, Hughes is addressing the main global issue that affected him and all people in America, which was inequality. People living and migrating to America, had one thing in their mind, the American dream. The American dream is the ideal that people in America who wants to live the better and richer life, where there is freedom, wealth, and equality. However, Hughes sees America as a place where there is discrimination, greed, and a harder life. Hughes …show more content…
In the poem, Hughes stated, “There’s never been equality for me, Nor freedom in this ‘homeland of the free’.” It shows that America is not what they thought it was. Hughes is talking about how people in America is being unfairly and losing their freedom of doing things. One part from the poem said, “Of dog eat dog, of might crush the weak.” Hughes is saying that people in America have to fight each other, especially the going against the weak in order to gain the opportunity like a job opening or overpowering them like white people think they are on top of all the rest of the people. In the poem, “From those who live like leeches on the people’s lives” means that there are people who have the power and are wealthy who takes advantage of other people like immigrants or lower classes like paying a low wage or taking the people’s rights. Throughout the poem, the content is about the inequality in America how some people have more opportunity, privilege, and more power than others. Hughes wants to apprise this global issue of