Walter Whitman's I Hear America Singing

In “Those Extraordinary Twins” Twain’s first symbolic representation of America is placing the twins in the same body. What this symbolizes is how there are different factions within the twin’s body just like there are in the United States in the Civil War. Both personalities are represented by the same body but both at times must concede to the others wishes because fundamentally they are responsible for each other’s body that they share. This shared body represents how the landmass of the United States was our body as a nation, but we had two different “personalities” or ways of life and had to put up with one another like the twins have done their whole lives. This divide can be shown when in

Feelings towards a certain object, subject, or topic differ from person to person. The authors of “America” and “I Hear America Singing” express their feelings about the United States very differently in their writing. In “America,” the author constantly refers to the fact that America could be both a utopia and a dystopia at the same time. In “I Hear America Singing,” the author highlights the vast amount of jobs and chances at happiness that is in the land. Though both poems discuss the same topic, it is described dissimilarly and the authors present two different messages to the

The uniqueness of being colored among a mass of white builds tension, and the reader can easily mistake the persona’s race for his identity, despite it being otherwise. Furthermore, the author makes numerous allusions referring to specific settings. Yet, when the author alluded to “American” (33), he successfully delivered a broader theme. Since is the only person of “colour”, he provides diversity-- what America was and still is based upon.

didn 't actually kill Jesus Christ, but Mrs Noonuccal probably felt that the white men had killed his identity and changed him into something different. All One Race by Oodgeroo Noonuccal is a poem that speaks about how we are all so different but can come together as one, which is humanity. He mentions how we are “all one family” even if we aren 't made up of the same blood and bones, we all have blood and bones, we are all the same. Australia has become a place where all religions can wander freely. Australia is one of the only countries in the world that has such a mix of different cultures.

When colonizers from England settled in Jamestown in 1607, they acted violently despite Native-Americans’ hospitality. Many refused to acknowledge the validity of existing cultures and languages, and forcefully instilled a common language amongst the inhabitants. This pattern of erasure has continued for centuries: although there is no legislation specifying a national language, people in the United States have pushed others to linguistically assimilate using cultural and societal pressures. This discrediting of linguistic integrity contradicts ideas about increased cultural diversity resulting from immigration. President John F. Kennedy, in his book A Nation of Immigrants, emphasizes that “each new wave…made its distinctive contribution to the American Character” (17).

In these two poems , both writers are discussing the American Dream. They both want success for America. They also want opportunities to achieve . Whitman and Hughes represent a list of individuals , but in different ways.

How has the American Dream changed from the 1920’s to now and how has the theme of the American Dream been supported by works of American Literature. We will see how the American Dream though time did not follow what the founding fathers set out for us in the declaration of independence and when they said, “The authors of the United States’ Declaration of Independence held certain truths to be self-evident: that all Men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness". We will see how the American Dream suffers, what an American Dream is centered on, and how, for some, the American Dream is unattainable. In "The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald, "I Hear America Singing" by Walt Whitman and in "Harlem" by Langston Hughes we see the American dream depicted, as the loss and utter death of a distracted corrupt American Dream, as the love of the American dream, and as the American Dream for Blacks in a time of segregation and discrimination.

In the two poems, “I Hear America Singing,” and, “I, Too,” there are many similarities and differences that show us that know matter what is happening you have to stand up for yourself and do what you love. We see this in the two poems, “I Hear America Singing,” and, “I, Too” when the authors, Walt Whitman and Langston Hughes, both talk about what America was a like in the 1900s, and how people were doing jobs that they had liked to do. We can see how a African American man would stand up for himself and we see this in the poem “I, Too” because we are able to see how he was able to stand up to everyone else and prove he was able to be treated like anyone else.

James Monroe Whitfield’s poem, “America,” spoke to me the most compared to the other poems in the selection. In the poem he asks many questions regarding the American Revolution, and the true reasons for America to become free. The line that stuck out to me the most was on lines 17 and 18, “Was it for this they shed their blood, On hill and plain, on field and flood?” Whitfield is trying to make the point in these lines that the American Revolution was fought for freedom for all men and women in America. Many men shed their blood for liberty and they were proud of the outcome.

Langston Hughes conveys a similar message throughout most of his poems. “Let America Be America Again”, “I Too Sing America” and “Down Where I am” are all very similar in that they convey the same message. Blacks and whites will be equal someday. In “Let America Be America Again” Hughes says, “Where never kings connive nor tyrants scheme.” This could be paraphrased or interpreted as “The U.S. should return to the old way of no one having all the power” because if blacks would have had more power back then instead of whites having most of the power, whites and blacks would have been more equal.

In Langston Hughes poem entitled “I, Too, Sing America” in line 3 he acknowledges “I am the darker brother” meaning that he was an American, but a black American indicating that there isn 't just one American. In addition to Whitman’s poem in Barack Obama’s Democratic National Convention speech in 2004 Obama emphasizes that “There’s not a black American and white America and Latin America and Asian America; there’s the United States of America”. When Obama states this he’s stating that there are many diverse cultures in

Many trades and exchanges throughout history bring very diverse cultures together. Nothing like widespread exchange over two hemispheres had never existed before 1492. Even though the cultures participating in these exchanges were viewed as different since they lived on opposite sides of the globe, they also had many commonalities. The Western Europeans and the East Asians were impacted greatly by the Colombian exchange. The western Europeans destructed and changed most of what they encountered while the East Asians blended and assimilated into the “new” cultures.

Race in American Born Chinese is both hidden within the text and yet not. In today’s issue race has come up a lot about “who you are.” People tend to judge others by what they look like on the outside. There are many topics within race that the comic explores, like racial stereotypes. In Danny’s story with his cousin Chin-Kee there was a great deal on racial stereotyping.

Even president Trump, an extremely influential figure, has come forward in saying he believes immigrants are taking jobs and money (Times). Many of those in support of Trump agree with his statement and believe lives of the ‘true’ nativists are being squandered. Additionally, there are also some fast held in stereotyping groups of people as ‘terrorists’ and outsiders who do not belong. Anti-minority groups believe the United States should be pure nativists with no diversity one soever. What these individuals fail to take into consideration is not even they themselves are true nativists.

“There’s never been equality for me, nor freedom in this homeland of the free.” America never was America to me! Both poems were written about the American Dream and how it benefited some people, while not so much for other people and the two poets wrote about how America seemed at the time they were living. “I Hear America Singing” and “Let America be America Again” are two popular poems from history and they have their similarities.