Langston James Hughes

Langston James Hughes was an Afro-American written who wrote poems, stories and songs, expressing the suffering of his people for equal rights. He was born in Juplin on the first  of February 1902. His adolescence is sad. In 1919 he graduated and he went to Messico with his father. He entrikked at Columbia Univesity to study engineering. He liked to play jazz, blues music and to write poems. He graduated at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. In 1930 he wrote his first poem. In 1967 he died for tumor in New York.

Langston James Hughes

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"I too sing America", it's a poem written by Langston James Hughes. This is struggle for the freedom for Afro-American people. In fact, the poet talks about his situation, when white kitchen when company comes. But he says what tomorrow he'll sit at the table with all other. The poem is based on some contrasts:-TODAY and tomorrow:TODAY when he must eat in the kitchen and he says:" I, too, sing America ".This means he is considered inferior, he is demied of his rights. The poetuses the present simple.TOMORROW when he will sit at the says: " I, too, sing America ". This apportunities and equal richts. The poet-I and THEY:I= refers to black peopleTHEY= refers to white peopleThe poet is pround to be black (line 16).We love this poem because the protagonist is very optimistic, despite his situation.

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I, TOO, SING AMERICA

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