America and I Too

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to the flag of the United States the same as whites do but don’t have the same rights as citizens. There is irony where he proudly eats alone in the kitchen but knows one day he will eat from that table when company comes or when segregation is no more and opportunities present itself. This poem has no rhyme scheme and written in free verse, making the poem flow as a complete thought.
In “America” McKay gives his opposing views on the negative and positive aspects of America and believing that trouble will not last always. Like Hughes he uses first person point of view giving his deepest emotions about America hindering blacks’ progress to be productive citizens at the time. The poem is a sonnet with fourteen lines having an identifiable rhyme scheme throughout the poem. The tone in this poem switches in the first half of the poem from disgust and acceptance to optimism in the second seeing that there is hope for blacks to still rise above oppression. McKay’s diction is ...

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