Which theme is similar in Rich's "From an Atlas of the Difficult World" and Hughes's "Let America Be America Again"?

A) There is hope amid difficulties

B) Individuals create problems for others

C) Dreams raise people out of boredom

D) People Rebel against Inequality

I believe the best answer to be letter A) There is hope amid difficulties.

Explanation:

In Langston Hughes's "Let America Be America Again", the speaker talks of how America was supposed to be a land of freedom and equality, but turned out to be the opposite for many. The speaker himself says more than once that America was never America to him. Still, at the end of the poem, he says America shall be America. The very people who are now oppressed shall claim America and make it what it should have been from the beginning. As we can see, the author has hope.

"I know you are reading this poem listening for something, torn / between bitterness and hope / turning back once again to the task you cannot refuse." Those are lines from Adrianne Rich's poem "An Atlas of the Difficult Word". The speaker in the poem is well-aware that people are forced to live unfulfilling lives. She is also aware that many of them still have dreams, hopes, loves, thirst for more. No matter how poor, sad, tired, or busy people are, they can still find pleasure in life, even if it is by reading the poem.

Therefore, both poems talk of hope amid difficulties, of keeping on dreaming in spite of what oppression has done to prevent it.