Seventh Reading

Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes

After the first reading of this poem I knew I had to use it, and after a few more reads my understanding of it just kept getting so much clearer. The poem basically focused around the irony of America being the land of the free when in fact their has been inequality and oppression throughout all its history.

(There's never been equality for me,

Nor freedom in this "homeland of the free)

The more I read it the more certain literary techniques would appear to me such as the many anaphora's the author uses to describe his point such as "It was never America to me" and "Let it be..."