`america` &`i too`

Comparison of Allen Ginsbergs `America and Langston Hughes `I , Too`

The two poem 's , Allen Ginsbergs `America and Langston Hughes `I , Too` speaks of America as a personal being . It speaks of an identification of both authors on being America itself . The authors uses different tones and styles of writing that make the emphasis of personal America meaningful in their own way

Ginsberg poem reads like a spontaneous monologue and the train of thought is occasionally interrupted from time to time . For example , at one moment he speaks of , America when will

we end the human war /Go fuck yourself with your atom bomb ' and then he followed it with I don 't feel good don 't bother me . Or "You should have seen me reading Marx /My psychoanalyst thinks I 'm perfectly right /I won 't say the Lord 's Prayer /I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations ( Norton 136 . It seemed that the writer wrote the words in the poem as it comes to his mind , putting in any thoughts that come across while writing the poetry . The tone of the poem therefore is more like a mixture of confusion , agitation or America look like a confused being who is overwhelmed with its many activities . Hughes poem on the other hand , is much shorter and had a more relaxed tone obviously , the writer spends some time to arrange his thoughts to come up with the poem . As a result , the poem portrayed America as a calm desirable personal being

The theme of the two poems is the portrayal of America as a personal being and not as a country . The two poem however generally portrayed opposite feelings towards America as a person , the first poem expresses a negative feeling while the second poem a positive one . The first poem portrays America as a howling , screaming person that seemed to be overwhelmed with the burdens of living the American life . The second poem expresses the idea that to be recognized as America is a desirable end for it had many privileges like if he is America he does not need to eat in the kitchen anymore but would eat at the table (Poetry Archive 2005

Moreover , the two poems reveal the relationship of the two authors with regards to the personal America . In the first poem , the author is already living America , that is , he already recognize that he is the embodiment of an American . As an America he describe the kind of life that he is living like he felt that Asia is rising against me or that he does not want to join the Army ' or he does not want to turn lathes in precision parts in factories ' or that he read the magazine every week ( Norton 136-137 . When the author says that Asia is rising against me ' he means that as an American he is constantly faced with oppositions from all sides , or that when he had to join the army ' it means that...