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Ilaria Palumbo
EN114_70
Professor Harmon
February 23, 2018
“I, Too”
The poem that Langston Hughes wrote, “I, Too”, is such a powerful poem that it was truly hard to pick just one quote and write about it. Langston Hughes was proud to be an African American poet in the early 20th century. This was a tough time for a person like Langston Hughes to be a poet because of his race. That didn’t stop him from writing his poem though. It encouraged him to write his poems.
In this poem, it’s about a little African American boy who lived with a family that was having company over. When company comes over the boy has to go eat in the kitchen. The little boy is upset and wants to make a difference. Towards the end of the poem you can see that the boy is determined to never give up or lose hope.
“They send me to eat in the kitchen” (Levine, 872). The kitchen symbolizes a place of less importance. The boy is being treated as if he was less of a person than the guests because of his race. This is also a metaphor for segregation. I think that it is truly upsetting to see that even a boy has to go through...
