This important poem by Hughes is in response to Whitman's
"I Hear America Singing." It is in reference to the African American plight before the
Civil Rights movement (circa the Harlem Renaissance.) African Americans also are part of
the American landscape and experience. When Hughes says, "I am the darker brother" in
the poem he means darker in skin, obviously, but also darker in experience. He may also
mean the speaker of the poem is a darker skin black man in opposition with lighter
skinned black persons. (An African American professor at Nova Southeastern University
interpreted that line in this way.)
Friday, December 21, 2012
can anybody write summary of the poem "I too sing america"by langston huges.I am unable to get the summary of the poem, can you help me please my...
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