Another verse, “I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean-- Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers! I am the man who never got ahead, the poorest worker bartered through the years,” shows a very different America than the one Walt Whitman wrote about. I think the purpose of each poem was to portray the experience of America for each of the poets. They had different views of the same country, due to them being different races and they were written at different times in history. Walt Whitman’s poem appeared in 1867 and Langston Hughes’s poem, was written in 1935. The different views could also be due to the fact that the view of America during 1867 was better than 1935. One poet feels the American dream has been fulfilled and the other feels that it falls
Another verse, “I am the farmer, bondsman to the soil. I am the worker sold to the machine. I am the Negro, servant to you all. I am the people, humble, hungry, mean-- Hungry yet today despite the dream. Beaten yet today—O, Pioneers! I am the man who never got ahead, the poorest worker bartered through the years,” shows a very different America than the one Walt Whitman wrote about. I think the purpose of each poem was to portray the experience of America for each of the poets. They had different views of the same country, due to them being different races and they were written at different times in history. Walt Whitman’s poem appeared in 1867 and Langston Hughes’s poem, was written in 1935. The different views could also be due to the fact that the view of America during 1867 was better than 1935. One poet feels the American dream has been fulfilled and the other feels that it falls