I Hear America Singing What attitude toward work is conveyed in this poem? How does the word choice and imagery help you.

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I Hear America Singing What attitude toward work is conveyed in this poem? How does the word choice and imagery help you know this?

I, Too, Sing America Note Hughes’s very deliberate allusion to Whitman’s “I Hear America Singing.” Over 50 years separates these two writers and their poetry. What does the speaker in “I, Too, Sing America” want us to know about the promise of America?

America The imagery and diction of “America” seems to express both positive and negative attitudes toward America. How does this represent the speaker’s ideas?