Interacial America

“My People” is perhaps one of the easiest poems in which one can identify the respect Hughes holds for the African American race. The poem is composed of three couplets. Structurally, the first two couplets mirror each other, beginning with a celestial body in the first line and moving on to describe a human feature in the second. The last couplet however, has a different arrangemen

Hughes poem “I, Too”, brings these discrepancies to light in a very simple manner. This poem is broken down into five segments of differing lengths. The opening line of the poem is this, “I, too, sing America.” (DiYanni 526 line 1) This tells us that the person speaking in the poem is attempting to make his point known; he is a child of America also. The second section discusses a Negro man being sent into a separate room to take his meal due to the arrival of company. The man is not discouraged; he knows that someday this will change. The third piece of the poem alludes to a time when the man will be treated as an equal brother of America. When is happens “They’ll see how beautiful I am/ And be ashamed-/ I, too, am America.” (DiYanni 527 lines 15-18) By concluding the poem the way he does, Hughes brings it full circle. The reader gets a false sense of achievement.

To the enemy who would conquer us from without,

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