Walt Whitman's 'I Hearing America Singing'

2-3 Specific elements of figurative language the author uses to convey this theme are: Alliteration, Metaphor.

In this paper I will be talking about the similarities and differences in the two different poems. The two poems were written by two incredible poets and were probably one of the best in their lifetimes. The first poem is written by Walt Whitman and is called “ I Hear America Singing”. The other poem is by Langston Hughes and is called “I, Too, Sing America” .Many people believe that Langston Hughes wrote his poem “I, Too, Sing America” in response to Walt Whitman's poem “ I Hear America Singing”. Some people have a completely opposite opinion and say that the two poems have nothing to with each other. Langston Hughes did many things in his life. Some of them include being an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and a

Whitman and Hughes use their poems to share their point of view on America with their readers. Whitman's poem portrays a unified America. He incorporates people from all areas of life and all professions to show how they work together to make up America. Per Whitman, everyone is apart of making America what it is. On the other hand, Hughes uses his poem to show the discrimination and segregation in our country. He shows the reader how it feels to be ignored by a unified group of people, even though Walt Whitman and Langton Hughes are both literary forerunners in their own eras, Langston Hughes provides a duality to his verse by presenting the "disjointed" black perspective to the national conversation.

America is a country that has been through many different times of trials. Wars and disease have spread across that nation several times. During times of depression, though, a group of people seems to always emerge from the destruction. That group of people are the poets and writers of America. Through trial and strife, writers are able to find inspiration for their works, and are able to give readers hope for a better day. Walt Whitman was an amazing writer who wrote several poems concerning the great United States of America, talking about the people that have built the nation up from the dust. But, a group of people that Whitman forgot to write about on most occasions were the slaves and black people of which America thrived. Langston Hughes was a black man in the 20th century that took note of Whitman's poems, and their lack of recognition towards his people. Whitman wrote a poem called, "I Hear America Singing," in which Hughes wrote the poem, "I, Too Sing America," in response. In the poem by Hughes, there are several different ways that the writing interlaces with Walt Whitman's.

Both authors have different tones for their poems. Whitman’s attitude while writing “I hear America Singing” was happy, joyful, and cheerful. From the way he looks at it, he has everything so everyone must be the same way. He views America as a perfect, beautiful place to live and work. “...at night the party of young fellows, robust, friendly, “Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs” (ll. 16-18). Whitman sounds merry and satisfied. After all the work, the Americans have fun and relax which is not usually the case and is expressed that way in Hughes’s poem.

People may dream of a perfect society where everyone is similar--a utopia. People might believe building a utopia is a grand idea because they won’t have to worry about being bullied or discriminated. There couldn’t be any flaws in building a utopia-- accept everything. Yeah, everyone would be similar, and people probably won’t be bullied or discriminated, but are the consequences of fixing those proroblems going to be worth it. Absolutely not, imagine if there was only one kind of culture/one kind of person, let's say everyone is German, that means when there is an opportunity to go out to eat there will be no Mexican, no Chinese, no Italian, etc. The same food will be eaten just like any other day. Plus, food wouldn’t be the only thing affected

Poets Walt Whitman and Richard Blanco both use heavy repetition in their works, “I Hear America Singing”, and “One Today”. When Whitman uses the word singing over and over again, the author conveys that every single person in America has his/her own unique song, which he/she sings loud and proud for a copious amount of reasons.

I would like to portray the contrast between the poem ‘I Hear America Sing’ by Walt Whitman

Comparing I Hear America Singing, and I, too and To Walt Whitman it is clear that Walt Whitman did not include the native americans in his poem, but also it is noticeable he didn’t completely exclude them either. Early in his life, he was fired for his opposition to slavery so it wouldn't make sense for him to go against them. In the long run, I feel Walt was more celebrating what America thought was notable; but when it came to Native American people it wasn't one people viewed to be acclaimed. On the flip side, the difference between I Heard America Singing and I, Too, as well as To Walt Whitman, was that Whitman didn’t realize it at the time of writing his poems that he was excluding these folks, but Hughes and de Hoyos begged to differ.

“I Hear America Singing” writing by Whitman,”Let America be America Again” writing by Hughes where both poems that listed a group of individuals who were looking for a way to secede in the American Dream. Both poems explored the identity of America. They also talked about who and what an american and what makes America so great. The poems talked about the characterizes of the nation and people. They both carry strength throughout their poems. However they reach some differences in their poems.

In the poem “I, Too, Sing America” by Langston Hughes, he envisions a greater America, a more inclusive America where all the races can proudly represent themselves as American citizens. Hughes was a leader of Harlem Renaissance, and had tremendous pride of his race as an African American. However, during that time period, African Americans were being considered as second-class race, and they were being segregated in every aspect throughout the country. Hughes could not tolerate seeing his fellow brothers and sisters being treated unequally because of their skin color, he knew that he had to do something to bring a change, and he was determined to make that change become the reality. Hughes published the poem in the year of 1945, about ten years before the Civil Rights Movement in the United States. It was the time where racism and prejudice were still prevalent, and segregation laws were being implemented in many places throughout the country. People needed encouragement to stand up in order to fight for their rights, and this poem perfectly empowers people’s courage and spirit. In “I, Too, Sing America,” Langston Hughes uses sound, diction, and symbolism hoping to awaken people’s dilapidated spirits and that one day people would embrace each other in which African Americans are truly classified as equal Americans.

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Walt Whitman uses deliberate figurerative langauge in his poem " I Hear America Singing "to exspess his emotion about the american worker, to make strong connection , with the narrator his strong pasion of the american worker in " I Hear America Singing " Mr. Whitman uses repitition and imegery to express his feelings about the american worker to the reader. " I Hear America Singing " is a poem that the auther uses to express the american worker singing , and enjoying their careers . and singing the " varied carols " pretaining to each and every career, weather it is about going to work, at work or leaving work. "Whitman" points out workers sing about every part of their job, because they enjoy their careers Whitman talks about workers

While he is proud to be American, Langston Hughes does not hesitate to point out its flaws in both “I, Too, Sing America” and “Let America be America Again.” In both poems, there is a rather prominent undertone concerning problems within America, with a certain focus on racial prejudice. For example, in “I, Too, Sing America”, Hughes describes a situation where the narrator of the poem is sent away to eat dinner in a separate room because, “[He is] the darker brother” (“I, Too, Sing America”). This shows the narrator’s experiences with racial discrimination, a rather long-time flaw the United States possessed. However, hope is shown for when there will be a day when the narrator is not sent away, determined that those who did him wrong “[Will] see