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I Hear America Singing And Langston Hughes Comparison

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Langston Hughes once said “Let America be America Again”. What does he mean by what he quoted? “I hear America Singing” is a poem written by Walt Whitman and these two poems have similarites and diffrences. These two poems have a lot of similarites. They are both American poems about the american dream. They both talk about people in both poems. They also use imagery, for example in Langston Hughes poem he says “ I am the young manful of strength and hope. The purpose of I HAS was for americans potential / ability to form a united body who happily fulfill their purpose through their task, and Langston Hughes wanted what Walt Whitman wrote about but he didnt so Langston wrote how he was being treated inspite of Walt Whitmans poem. In
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