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I Too (poet's backgroud (events (His parents divorced when he was a…
I Too
poet's backgroud
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proffession
American poet, social activist, novelist, playwright, and columnist from Joplin, Missouri.
he held odd jobs such as assistant cook, launderer, and busboy.
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body of work
He wrote novels, short stories and plays, as well as poetry, and is also known for his engagement with the world of jazz and the influence it had on his writing
events
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raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her husband,
After graduating from high school, he spent a year in Mexico followed by a year at Columbia University in New York City.
literary devices
symbolism: The action of "eating in the kitchen" symbolises the oppression of the African Americans at the time.
allusion: the title of the poem "I too sing America" is an allusion to Walt whitmans poem "I hear America singing
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Tone
The tone of the poem is pride and defiance. It speaks of a racial divide in America that white people are perfectly content to ignore. Sending the speaker to the kitchen to eat can be symbolic of segregation, but also of America's desire to ignore the race problem
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Structure
free verse, meaning there's no metrical pattern here. No pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables
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