America Back in the 1600’s, America bought slaves from Africa and treated them badly. They were often whipped and had to do the dirty work. Slavery has affected many people, even the ones that are not a part of America. This caused several poets to write about slavery. The poets Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes publish their angle about America as they explore it in their poems I Hear America sing and I too, through structure, mood, and point of view.
The structure of the poems are organized in a very repetitive yet different way. The title of the poem is “I too” and the poem starts with “I too” (Hughes 10). Hughes often uses “I too” which insists on drawing the reader’s attention to how the African Americans wants to be included and considered themselves as Americans. In addition to the title and first line starting with I too, the ending also with “I too”(Hughes 12). The poet really wants to emphasize on the fact that African Americans wants to be included. Whitman often starts with “The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam,”(Whitman 3) or “The mason…show more content… Whitman is able to “hear America singing, the varied carols”(Whitman 1). This is directed towards the American slave owners who are very patriotic when they work. The slave claims that tomorrow, “Nobody’ll dare/ say/ tome/ Eat in the kitchen” (Hughes 11-13). Although the slaves were told to sit in the kitchen, this particular slave is confident that people will invite him to the dinner table one day. THe slave also believes that the slave owners will “see how beautiful I am” (Hughes 18) and will not send him to eat in the kitchen. This symbolizes that although slaves gets put own, they still have a high self-respect for himself which is crucial in his circumstance. It is obvious that the patriotic white men are owning slaves that are confident and have a lot of self