'Let America Be America Again' By Langston Hughes: Poem Analysis

Let it be the dream it used to be. Was America ever great, the poem “Let America be America again” by Langston Hughes looks deeper into this theory. To many in America at this point of time, the American dream had disappeared before their eyes and hopelessness had filled this void within the American people. This poem expresses the silent Americans’ concern of how America was intended to be verses what it had become to them, and could aspire to be again. The American dream right from Dictionary.com defines it as the “ideals of freedom, equality, and opportunity traditionally held to be available to every American”. As seen in the text Hughes feels he not be given these rights of the American dream even though he is and American. Hughes address his concerns and claims (There’s never been …show more content…
Huguhes also suggest and calls attention to “America was never America to him” giving us and insight and suggests that as a minority living in this country, freedom can never truly exist. When examined the word “dream” we can interpret as a figure of speech so to speak. These ideas of equal opportunity and universal freedom have never really been the reality of America back in those days. “Dream” was also used later in the poem and when used this second time you can see it was not brought on by the wealthy or the high social class, it was found in the spirts of the oppressed. The themes used in “Let America be America again” is of taking action and being positive, to make America dignified and magnificent, another widely seem theme is freedom, Hughes focuses on American freedom and equality in this poem. Freedom is not a racial thing but for every citizen whose life has been affect by the path taken by the American development. American freedom is not on gender and race only but a freedom to embrace economic freedom and