Similarities Between Whitman And Langston Hughes

The American dream, the hope of a better future. Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes, two shrewd dreamers whom, based on their time period, put the American dream to words. Walt Whitman, the man who introduced the free-verse poem and the author of “I Hear America Singing”, written in the mid-1800’s this poem describes America’s workforce singing about their jobs. Langston Hughes was the author of “Let America Be America Again,” which was written in the mid-1900’s and describes Hughes’ feeling of being left out of the American dream by explaining how America is not “free”. So? We ask ourselves, how do these poems relate?

Both of these poems relate to the American dream; however, both poems don’t portray the American dream in the same fashion.