1. The American Ideal in Comparison to Reality
The American song can be different because it can explore so many different aspects of the world, the soul, what it means 'to be' – look at Walt Whitman's various poems, all songs of himself yet bursting to the world and to his god. ... He believed black men including himself should stick to farm work because "No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem" (450). ... Langston Hughes's poetry could almost be the love song version of Du Bois's collection of essays. ... Hughes while having the exp...
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