I Hear America Singing I Too Analysis

The poet of “I hear America singing”, “I, too” and “Where is my country” are telling their feelings about America. Their race is different and they have different views toward this country.

Although the three poems are talking about America, the poem's theme and the mood are kind of different. “I hear America singing” is a poem that describes the sound of working. This poem’s theme is people who work made America better. The poet is proud of it “Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs” (Walt Whitman, line 12) and the mood is positive and encouraging. In “I, too”, the poet talk about his experience of being treated unfairly. The theme of “I, too” is quite different, it’s saying that all people are equal and share the same right. Its mood is similar that it’s positive and proud. For the third poem “Where is my country”, it's talking about the poet’s feeling of America. Its theme is the writer has a problem of her identity. The mood of the poem is lost and confuse. We can see that this poem has the different theme but “I hear America singing” and “I, too” both have the similar mood.
They all used imagery and repetition to show the theme. “I hear America singing”(line 1), “I, too, am America” (line 18) and “Where is my country?” these are the sentences that have repeated many times in the poem. The different is the poem”I hear America singing” describe many of the sounds of people working, it makes the poem live. “I, too” used dialogue, just like he’s telling a story, it makes readers think that they’re involved in the story. In “Where is my country”, the poet used the question to express her confusion of where does she