Sometimes American author’s imply what it is like to be American through their poems. I say that because the authors who wrote the poems “I Too” and “I Hear America Singing” wrote their poems to relate to what it’s really like to be American. Whitman’s idea about being American is that everybody is unified, happy and working. Hughes's idea is showing how some Americans are segregated and forgotten in America.

For example when Hughes in his poem “I Too” he’s talking about being segregated from others in his poem and you know that he is talking about segregation because in his poem he says “They send me to eat in the kitchen” which means someone is not wanting him to be around their company they want to hide him away. In contrast Whitman's poem