An America of white sings louder the the rest. This is a rough interpretation of how Langston Hughes and african American writer took the meaning of the I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman. Langston Hughes decided to write a rebuttal to the poem in which he name I, Too. This poem challenge Whitman's poem basically saying you forgot the Black from your poem. Langston almost puts it as a revised edition or a part that went missing for the original publishing. I, Too was a big statement piece for the African American community and publically reaching out and saying there is a problem in America and it needs to be solve. All men are equal and that what all the founding fathers agreed on yet still Blacks were looked at as lesser. There are two big points made in both Whitman's I Hear America singing, and Hughes I, Too. First is Whitman's poem I Hear America Singing, this is a power piece of the American pride. This displays the hard work all American endure and the struggle they had to go through. It was what makes the America such a great nation. In Whitman's poem it says, " The carpenter singing his as he measures his plank or beam, The mason singing his as he makes ready for work. " (lines 5-6). This continues showing examples in which white men pride themselves …show more content…
Hughes poem starts out with a very powerful line where it states, " I , too sing America." (line 1). Immediately Hughes takes a stab at Whitman's I Hear America Singing by saying i a black man born in the states are as much of America as any white man. the first poem left out the suffering the African American had to endure especially being looked at as a lesser human being. Without the black doing the hard work not white man dare to do America would not be so great and no white man would be singing knowing the pain. Undoubtedly, Hughes challenges and takes a stab at Whitman's poem and states Black men are just as great and