Submitted by parris_i on October 8, 2008

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American Freedom

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Comp II
9/14/08
American Freedom
Langston Hughes’ “Let America Be America Again” demonstrates his belief in the American dream of freedom, and the system which keeps the people from attaining that very freedom. The speaker is an American, who feels that being American is something he has never attained. The peoples, who formed our great nation on the basis of escaping tyranny, just to become Americans in a new state of oppression, must hold onto the American dream if our country will ever be truly free. Langston uses strong imagery to identify the speaker of his poem as the oppressed and the tone conveys the corruption of the rich, by...

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