Essay: Write a two-page essay in which you compare any two out of the four Walt Whitman and Langston Huges poems. What do they have in common? How are they different? Use specific examples from the text to prove your point.
Poems: I, too, sing America by Langston Hughes & I hear America Singing by Walt Whitman
Today, we know, that a poem can best be described as a verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a very imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme, etc. A literary composition like a poem is written with an intensity or beauty of language. Poetry can be written about anything you would like. Famous Poets, like Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes wrote about things that go on in their everyday life.
Walt Whitman and Bill Duckett
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English: "Today I sang a concert of Langston Hughe...I, too, sign America and I hear America Singing are two famous poems which, at that time, was something both of these gentlemen experienced in America. Among these two poems, there is a link of similarities and differences between them.
I, too, sing America by Langston Hughes was written about the lifestyle and face of American people in the 1930s. This poem talks mostly about slavery and the results of slavery. Hughes, as an African American himself, is speaking in terms of a slave. He talks about how he is a black slave being governed by the white man and that there will be a time in which he will never be governed by anyone and would be free. I hear America Singing by Walt Whitman was written while walking the docks of New York in the late 1800s. Whitman was writing an uplifting poem about the vibrancy,