Langston Hughes: Poem Analysis
Everyone will fight for a cause at one point in life, but in return they expect results that show that what they are doing is worth continuing the hardships that come with fighting for that cause. When the result is not proportional to the effort, people lose the will to keep going. Langston Hughes was apart of the struggle for equality and had high hopes. His perspective on equality was positive, but as his life went on that perspective changed and was noticeable through the poems that he wrote. “I, Too” , “Let America Be America Again”, and “Dream Deferred” were not only poems, but also Hughes view of the progression of equality.
Each poem was a different time period of Hughes life. “I, Too” showed aspects of hope “Tomorrow… ashamed” equality …show more content…
All that had changed was his own view on America. He was unable to believe that such an obvious issue had not been addressed. Where is the America that everyone was promised; The America where “All men are created equal”? Is similar to what Hughes had thought at the time. His faith in America had been shaken and Hughes cried out to America for reassurance and wrote “Let America Be America Again”. “Let… free” carried the hopes of not only Hughes, but everyone that came to America. There was no answer to his calls eventually leading him into losing hope in America.
For Hughes America was no longer what he had thought it was. He lost all hope in America and the “American Dream” leading him to write “A Dream Deferred”. The dream of freedom and success must have been recalled and it must have just disappeared like it never did exist. His whole world had been “turned upside down” as he got older. Hughes never did get to see that there is a reason to always keep on fighting.
Langston Hughes was an ambitious poet that fought for a cause. He fought his entire life for something he thought was worth fighting for, but unchanging results took added up and took a toll on him. In the end he no longer had the will to fight and gave up on his dream of equality. He was not able to obtain the dream that he had always hoped
Each poem was a different time period of Hughes life. “I, Too” showed aspects of hope “Tomorrow… ashamed” equality …show more content…
All that had changed was his own view on America. He was unable to believe that such an obvious issue had not been addressed. Where is the America that everyone was promised; The America where “All men are created equal”? Is similar to what Hughes had thought at the time. His faith in America had been shaken and Hughes cried out to America for reassurance and wrote “Let America Be America Again”. “Let… free” carried the hopes of not only Hughes, but everyone that came to America. There was no answer to his calls eventually leading him into losing hope in America.
For Hughes America was no longer what he had thought it was. He lost all hope in America and the “American Dream” leading him to write “A Dream Deferred”. The dream of freedom and success must have been recalled and it must have just disappeared like it never did exist. His whole world had been “turned upside down” as he got older. Hughes never did get to see that there is a reason to always keep on fighting.
Langston Hughes was an ambitious poet that fought for a cause. He fought his entire life for something he thought was worth fighting for, but unchanging results took added up and took a toll on him. In the end he no longer had the will to fight and gave up on his dream of equality. He was not able to obtain the dream that he had always hoped