In "I, Too, Sing America." why did Langston Hughes most likely allude to Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"?

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Tristen

24 February, 05:26

In "I, Too, Sing America." why did Langston Hughes most likely allude to Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"?

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Gretchen Guerrero · Answer 1

In "I, Too, Sing America." why did Langston Hughes most likely allude to Walt Whitman's poem "I Hear America Singing"? Check all that apply. to prove that he had read Whitman's poem to write about similar themes as Whitman to expand on the ideas in Whitman's poem to link his poem with another great American poem to demonstrate that he was a better poet than Whitma