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==Text== | ==Text== | ||
I, too, sing America.<br> | |||
I, too, sing America. | <br> | ||
I am the darker brother.<br> | |||
They send me to eat in the kitchen<br> | |||
I am the darker brother. | When company comes,<br> | ||
But I laugh,<br> | |||
They send me to eat in the kitchen | And eat well,<br> | ||
When company comes, | And grow strong.<br> | ||
<br> | |||
But I laugh, | Tomorrow,<br> | ||
I'll be at the table<br> | |||
And eat well, | When company comes.<br> | ||
Nobody'll dare<br> | |||
And grow strong. | Say to me,<br> | ||
"Eat in the kitchen,"<br> | |||
Then.<br> | |||
Tomorrow, | <br> | ||
Besides,<br> | |||
I'll be at the table | They'll see how beautiful I am<br> | ||
And be ashamed--<br> | |||
When company comes. | <br> | ||
I, too, am America.<br> | |||
Nobody'll dare | |||
Say to me, | |||
"Eat in the kitchen," | |||
Then. | |||
Besides, | |||
They'll see how beautiful I am | |||
And be ashamed-- | |||
I, too, am America. | |||
==Critical Edition== | ==Critical Edition== | ||
Langston Hughes. "I, Too [1925]." ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature''. Vol. D. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 1525. | Langston Hughes. "I, Too [1925]." ''The Heath Anthology of American Literature''. Vol. D. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 1525. | ||
==Further Reading== | ==Further Reading== | ||
*Davidas, Lionel. "'I, Too, Sing America': Jazz and Blues Techniques and Effects in Some of Langston Hughes's Selected Poems." Dialectical Anthropology, 26:3-4 (2001), pp. 267-72. | |||
==External Links== | ==External Links== | ||
*[http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap9/hughes.html Langston Hughes on ''PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide''] | |||
*[http://falcon.jmu.edu/~ramseyil/hughes.htm Langston Hughes on ''Teacher Resource File''] | |||
[[Category:20th century|1925]] | |||
[[Category:1920s|1925]] | [[Category:1920s|1925]] | ||
[[Category:By author|Hughes, Langston]] | [[Category:By author|Hughes, Langston]] | ||
Latest revision as of 15:03, 8 April 2008
Text
I, too, sing America.
I am the darker brother.
They send me to eat in the kitchen
When company comes,
But I laugh,
And eat well,
And grow strong.
Tomorrow,
I'll be at the table
When company comes.
Nobody'll dare
Say to me,
"Eat in the kitchen,"
Then.
Besides,
They'll see how beautiful I am
And be ashamed--
I, too, am America.
Critical Edition
Langston Hughes. "I, Too [1925]." The Heath Anthology of American Literature. Vol. D. Fifth Edition. Ed. Paul Lauter. Boston, New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006. 1525.
Further Reading
- Davidas, Lionel. "'I, Too, Sing America': Jazz and Blues Techniques and Effects in Some of Langston Hughes's Selected Poems." Dialectical Anthropology, 26:3-4 (2001), pp. 267-72.
