Compare And Contrast Whitman And Langston Hughes

Hughes De Hoyas Whitman Essay

Poems have been written for a long time. And part of this poems were written by famous people such as Walt Whitman, Angela De Hoyo, and Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was an African-American poet who later was recognized for his poems about his people. He was inspired from the jazz. Angela De Hoyos was a chicana women who wrote poems of her people. She was a leader of a movement. She wa inspired to raise her voice from her people. Walt Whitman was a poet who was inspired in part by his travel to the American frontier. All three poets wrote the same topic of their poems. Example is how they wrote “I hear America singing” and “I too sing America” Even that all three poets are different, not just by race, all three create idealism.

Whit Whitman wrote a poem about how he appreciates hard working workers such as mechanics, shoe workers, and wood cutters. He explains how this type of workers make America as it is. An example is in line 2 he says “Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it should be blithe and strong”. As Whitman supports his ideas of idealism to workers, Angela De Hoyos writes a poem to him. Angela De Hoyos had a thought of why her people were never mentioned in Whitman’s poem as hard workers. She tells us why her people and the african american people should been set as an example of hard workers. She wants to tell Whitman to talk about her people. A citation is in line 7 -12 she says “So you can spell out a song” and in line 11-12 she says “that i can’t seem to find in your