"I Too" is also a response to Walt Whitman's "I Sing America." Whitman's poem is his own excitement and appreciation over "the country that offers him all he wants" (Constantakis 1). ... The poem itself is standing against the words of Walter Whitman's "I sing America" (Constantakis 1). ...
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. ...
Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. ...
Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life in America from the twenties through the sixties. ...
