Review Of Langston Hughes 'Poem Let America Be America Again'
Dai’Ja Person
Professor Gannon
ENGL 1302.4
5 February 2014
Is America Really America?
Langston Hughes, a major African American writer, is committed to telling the truth about the lives of black people through his passionate poetry. For instance, in his poem “Let America be America Again”, Hughes, being less than sanguine, claims that in reality people who possesses power often deprive others of America’s – the land known of equality, liberty, and freedom opportunities. Not only have those in power deprived lower class American access to the opportunities promised by the America value system, they have replaced it with the relentless pursuit of money, sex, and power. Hughes successfully executed his claim to be true by contributing tone, connotation anaphora, abstract language and personification. …show more content…
He believe that his experience as an African America has “never been equal for him.” (Line 15) Hughes felt that he was never completely free in this “homeland of the free.” (Line 16) Hughes also gave a sense of a positive tone in his poem. Then directly after purposely use diction to betray the claim. Let it be “that great strong land of love,” Hughes said. Express the little sense of hope he had in America but, Hughes being the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, he used the thought of “Kings connive” and “tyrants’ scheme”(Line 8) to point out the reality of the people being taking for granted instead of been give equal
Professor Gannon
ENGL 1302.4
5 February 2014
Is America Really America?
Langston Hughes, a major African American writer, is committed to telling the truth about the lives of black people through his passionate poetry. For instance, in his poem “Let America be America Again”, Hughes, being less than sanguine, claims that in reality people who possesses power often deprive others of America’s – the land known of equality, liberty, and freedom opportunities. Not only have those in power deprived lower class American access to the opportunities promised by the America value system, they have replaced it with the relentless pursuit of money, sex, and power. Hughes successfully executed his claim to be true by contributing tone, connotation anaphora, abstract language and personification. …show more content…
He believe that his experience as an African America has “never been equal for him.” (Line 15) Hughes felt that he was never completely free in this “homeland of the free.” (Line 16) Hughes also gave a sense of a positive tone in his poem. Then directly after purposely use diction to betray the claim. Let it be “that great strong land of love,” Hughes said. Express the little sense of hope he had in America but, Hughes being the poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, he used the thought of “Kings connive” and “tyrants’ scheme”(Line 8) to point out the reality of the people being taking for granted instead of been give equal