Walt Whitman's "I Hear America Singing has a celebratory tone toward the American experience of working-class Americans. At the same time, Langston Hughes's "I, Too" takes a passionate tone toward the American experience of Black Americans. Walt Whitman wrote "I Hear America Singing" in 1855 while slavery was still legal in the United States, and Langston Hughes wrote "I, Too" in response to Whitman's poem. In Whitman's poem, it states, "Singing with open mouths their strong melodious songs" (Whitman, lines 12-13). This line describes how working-class Americans unite in a symbolic song to bring the country together. This reveals Whitman's view of working-class Americans as a vital part of America. In Hughes's "I, Too" it says, "Besides, They'll