Q. What does the table symbolize in I too?
Table. In “I, too,” the table symbolizes respect, equality, and opportunity. In lines 8-9, the speaker makes a prediction about the future.
Q. What imagery is in I too sing America?
In the poem “I, too,” Hughes used analogies to compare skin color. He said, “I am the darker brother,” (line 2) which meant the narrator was darker than others. He was comparing the lighter and darker skin colors of people.
Q. What does eating in the kitchen represent in I too?
Why does the speaker in “I, Too” have to eat in the kitchen when company comes? He has to eat in the kitchen because he is an African American. Eating in the kitchen represents how the whites did not see the blacks as being equal to them [segregation].
Q. How does Langston Hughes alludes to Whitman’s poem to create a message in I too sing America?
Answer: Hughes’s poem uses Whitman’s idea that all Americans are individuals and important parts of this country. He wants to add to Whitman’s poem so that it includes the experience of African Americans. Hughes says African Americans are important and have a culture that should be celebrated.
Q. How is the Speaker affected when he is asked to eat in the kitchen in the poem I too by Langston Hughes?
It reveals how unaffected the speaker is by discrimination. How is the speaker affected when he is asked to eat in the kitchen? The speaker is embarrassed that he is asked to eat in the kitchen.
Q. What is the main idea of the poem caged bird?
The main themes in “Caged Bird” are freedom and confinement, artistic expression as resistance, and civil rights. Freedom and confinement: As its title indicates, “Caged Bird” is concerned with both imprisonment and the innate urge for freedom.
Q. Why does a caged bird sing?
After the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., Angelou was inspired by a meeting with writer James Baldwin and cartoonist Jules Feiffer to write I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings as a way of dealing with the death of her friend and to draw attention to her own personal struggles with racism.
