The Civil War and The Harlem Renaissance both had great influence on many people’s lives. Many poets wrote poems about those time periods. Even though, Walt Whitman was part of in the Civil War era, and Langston Hughes was a part during The Harlem Renaissance. Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes were different races, this may have caused their poems to be different. Although the poems are different, they still have some similarities. One of the similarities is that the poems believe America will prevail. The next similarity is that the poems talk about the American dream. That’s just a few of the similarities of these two poems. There are also differences to the two poems also. One of them are that the poets are different races, Walt Whitman
