THE ROARING 20S 1920 1929
ART AND CULTURE OF THE HARLEM RENAISSANCE
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white Americans.
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the lower class.
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other poets.
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African Americans.
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Detailed explanation-1: -“I, Too” is a cry of protest against American racism. Its speaker, a black man, laments the way that he is excluded from American society-even though he is a key part of it.
Detailed explanation-2: -We get the picture that America is like a song made up of many different voices singing. So Americans are a kind of chorus, where every person has an important part to sing. Hughes seems to be referencing Whitman’s poem and improving it by adding another voice to this song of America – the voice of black Americans.
Detailed explanation-3: -In part a response to Walt Whitman, ‘I, Too’ sees Hughes asserting that he, and other black American voices like his, also ‘sing’ of America and are America, too, even though American society treats black people differently.
Detailed explanation-4: -What is the extended metaphor in the poem “I, Too, Sing America"? Eating in the kitchen is being compared to racial segregation in America.