I Too Sing America By Langston Hughes Analysis

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The Harlem Renaissance was the time period in the 1920s that African-American culture began to spread from the South into the entire United States. A main focal point for change was Harlem, New York. African-American music, most popular type of music was jazz, theater, literature, and more began to become better known and common. Many African-Americans started to play jazz or blues music and write. The most well-known African-American poet, and the leader of the Harlem Renaissance, would be Langston Hughes. Hughes wrote many poems in the form of blue music, which helped capture the struggles that African-Americans were having in America. Many blacks were not treated or considered the same as whites and less important. However, when jazz music started becoming popular, the music…show more content…
The first writing, “When the Negro was in Vogue”, Hughes explains that many blacks weren’t allowed into clubs so that’s why they had to perform for only whites and they didn’t enjoy it. They never told a white person how they felt because they didn’t want to act rude. In one of his famous poems, I, too, sing America, he is explaining how he knows he is just as much American as any white person. He starts off by saying that he is a just a dark brother of all the white men. He continues explaining about how he gets told to eat nowhere in sight when a group of white men come. He has hope that he will eventually be able to stay at the “table” with everyone and will eventually have equal rights. He believes everyone will have shame of looking down upon him and of the way they acted toward him. In another famous poem of his, One-Way Ticket, Hughes wanted to make it clear that he would be any place in the United States except the South. He wanted to make this clear because he wanted to get away from the hatred and the hardships that he had to deal with when he lived in the
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