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I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen. When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I’ll be at the table. When company comes. Nobody’ll dare. Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They’ll see how beautiful I am. And be ashamed— I, too, am America.
I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen. When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table. When company comes. Nobody'll dare. Say to me, “Eat in the kitchen,” Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am. And be ashamed— I, too, am America.
Langston Hughes’ poem ‘I, Too, Sing America’ is an incredibly personal poem Hughes wrote during the Harlem Renaissance. The poem expresses how he felt like an unforgotten American citizen because of his skin color.
I, Too, sing America. Langston Hughes. Track 89 on Emily Dickinson. This poem was written to chronicle the struggle of African-Americans to demonstrate how they, too, are Americans. The...
“I, Too” is a poem by Langston Hughes. First published in 1926, during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, the poem portrays American racism as experienced by a black man. In the poem, white people deny the speaker a literal and metaphorical seat at the table.
Poem I Too Sing America by Langston Hughes : I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes,
In the poem, Hughes describes a ubiquitous racial oppression that degrades African Americans from their proper place. He writes from the perspective of the "darker brother" to a domineering family that shoos him away to the kitchen whenever company arrives.
