Sometimes American authors have implied through, what it is like to be an American through their poetry. In Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing” and Hughes poem “I, Too” seem to be similar, but they both have a very different message. These two authors use their poems to show their perspectives on what it's like to be and American. For instance, in Whitman’s poem “I Hear America Singing”, the poet expresses being an American by incorporating others from different regions and professions to show the readers how they work together to make up America. Hughes poem in the other hand, shows us how the discrimination and segregation. He also speaks of being isolated and put down and having “to eat in the kitchen”. Both of these poems shows that
