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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.
"The Weary Blues" is a poem by American poet Langston Hughes.Written in 1925, [1] "The Weary Blues" was first published in the Urban League magazine Opportunity.It was awarded the magazine's prize for best poem of the year.
James Mercer Langston Hughes (February 1, 1901 [1] – May 22, 1967) was an American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.One of the earliest innovators of the literary art form called jazz poetry, Hughes is best known as a leader of the Harlem Renaissance.
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I, Too, Sing America: Three Centuries of African American Poetry [editor] (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Children, 1998) Portraits of American Women: From Settlement to the Present [co-editor] (1991, reprint edition, Oxford University Press, 1998)
In rhetoric, a rhetorical device, persuasive device, or stylistic device is a technique that an author or speaker uses to convey to the listener or reader a meaning with the goal of persuading them towards considering a topic from a perspective, using language designed to encourage or provoke an emotional display of a given perspective or action.
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