Innledning
Let America Be America Again" is a poem written by Langston Hughes in.
In the poem, Hughes describes his disillusionment with the American Dream, for him the United States has failed to fulfill its promise of freedom and equality for all its people.
The poem initially follows a traditional rhyme scheme before giving way to free verse and delving into the speaker's attitude towards the American Dream.
Utdrag
Let America Be America Again" is a poem written by Langston Hughes in. In the poem, Hughes describes his disillusionment with the American Dream, for him the United States has failed to fulfill its promise of freedom and equality for all its people.
The poem initially follows a traditional rhyme scheme before giving way to free verse and delving into the speaker's attitude towards the American Dream.
The poem was written during a time when segregation between African Americans and white Americans was still practiced in the US.
The speaker expresses the opinion of an African American who does not feel the American dream of equal opportunity applies to him and his situation.
He explains how the "ideal" America is gone, or never was, but could still be. In the verse “O, let my land be a land where liberty is crowned with no false patriotic wreath, but every opportunity is real, and life is free equality is the air we breathe.
” It is clear the poor and the oppressed the reality of day to day existence makes the dream a cruel illusion.
The critics who feel Langston Hughes’s poem has become important again may have been because Donald Trump won the presidential elections by drawing on people’s frustrations about the economy and their living standards.
Before the 2016 election, many Americans felt they were no longer living the American dream. Trump came along and promised to “make America great again”.
Although, he has never really specified when America was great, nor has he said what made it great.
The United States was perhaps most united during the first two decades after World War II.
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